Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"This is a historic milestone," Samuel Ehrenhalt, New York commissioner for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, proclaimed last week. He was referring to new figures from the bureau that show that women hold more than 50% of the professional jobs in the U.S. Ehrenhalt's remarks immediately created a...
Honduras is the one anomaly in Central America: though it is somewhat wary of its southern neighbor Nicaragua, in fact it is more fearful of its historic rival, El Salvador. Indeed, some Hondurans fear that if Duarte ever mops up the Salvadoran rebels he will turn his American-trained army...
"All they knew was that they would die," said San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros. To honor the doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo 150 years ago, some 500 San Antonians and visitors gathered at a commemoration of the historic event last week. All the nearly 200 defenders...
For the world's 825 million Roman Catholics and 65 million Anglican Christians (known in the U.S. as Episcopalians), the pursuit of church reunion has been a lengthy and delicate exercise. In 1966, Rome and Canterbury authorized talks leading to the formation of a commission to examine the religious schism...
The actors playing Joyce and Lenin are completely wrong for their roles. What their actual talent level is I don't know, but it isn't high enough to make their characters believable. Perhaps the intent was comic incongruity between historic image and actual person, but it doesn't work...