Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About the immigrants who were naturalized on national television, complete with commercial interruptions--I wonder if they felt excited that their ceremony took place at such a historic moment, or was their experience cheapened by the commercialism surrounding it?
By insisting that the right to privacy extends only to rights "deeply rooted in the nation's history and tradition," White basically is saying that people have the right to do anything so long as it has received a historic stamp of approval from the rest of society. But if...
Less than half a mile across the water is Ellis Island, a darker, more 20th century place. The same pot of cash is subsidizing the renovation of the historic island and the transformation of its main building into a multimedia immigration museum. "Some people say we should concentrate on Miss...
Justices Brennan and Marshall are determined not to give Reagan that opportunity. "They will have to be carried out," says a former Brennan clerk, who adds that both of the old liberals are in reasonably good health. Powell, 78, and Blackmun, 77, are said to be a bit weary, yet...
In Alabama, Democratic Congressman Richard Shelby, a conservative, won the Senate nomination resoundingly, and is expected to run a tight race against first-term Republican Jeremiah Denton. Alabama was also the stage for another historic primary, this one for the office occupied for 16 years by Governor George Wallace, who...