Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The pull of the more activist wings of each party has left both parties incapable of finding and holding the political center. At one point George Bush had a 91% approval rating, but he still lost the presidency. Bill Clinton became President without a majority in 1992, and then his...
In Florida's Lake County district, crucial school-board decisions about construction projects were held up while a Christian-right majority formulated, then adopted, an "America First" policy instructing teachers to promote American values as "superior to other foreign or historic cultures." The policy struck many people in the predominantly...
The breakup of the Soviet Union was bad news for its performing-arts institutions. Struggling to survive without government support, most are now heavily dependent on potentially lucrative international tours. So it seems churlish to say the historic Kirov Ballet, in New York City last week and soon to embark...
AND LO, IT CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the...
Gingrich even used his historic joint appearance with Clinton in New Hampshire to get in a plug for his book. The President played along, joking that Senator Dole, the arbiter of morals, "hasn't given me permission to read that book yet." Now Gingrich is planning to stage a mock...