Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Frankfurter's death in 1965, his reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman...
Gary Hart, the Democratic front runner, declares, "For all practical purposes, we have entered the post-Reagan years." But he knows that the Democrats "won't win by default, or because of some historic trend or tide. We must offer some concrete alternatives to the laissez-faire philosophy of this...
"This kind of historic archaeology is a very recent field. Many people say, `That's not archaeology, that's yesterday afternoon,'" Williams said.
"[The Snow Squall] is the only surviving example of an American-built clipper ship," said E. Fred Yalouris '71, the project's director and an associate in historic archaeology with the Peabody museum.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, an adroit political tactician, led his ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a sweeping victory last summer in both houses of the Diet, the Japanese parliament. For his historic win, he was rewarded with an unusual one-year extension in office, becoming the longest- serving Japanese Prime...