Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first U.N. peacekeepers are dispatched to the Suez Canal: "As Secretary-General of the United Nations, [Dag] Hammarskjold holds a job whose very title carries overtones of impotence. Today, however, what was originally conceived of as the world's top civil-service berth shows promise of developing into an...
So far, Moscow has kept irredentist impulses largely in check. Shortly after the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Boris Yeltsin made a historic decision to affirm the borders of the old Soviet republics as new international ones. He has at several key moments repudiated the bellicose claims...
This level of expenditure makes some sort of twisted sense to studio executives for a big-action picture starring Schwarzenegger. But Titanic is a historic piece without major stars; it features up-and-comers Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. An executive at another studio says he can't imagine attempting...
The only person apparently unmoved by the historic rivalry is Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner.
Harvard, I am embarrassed to admit, is sorely lacking in school spirit. Although the stadium's bleachers are always filled for today's historic game, during the rest of the season it is not unusual for the visiting team to bring more fans than ol' Harvard can muster up. And...