Word: historicizing
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In the past decade the American public, mainly in New York City and Washington, has been treated to one of the historic events in the life of the modern museum: the collaboration between U.S. institutions and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux on a series of retrospectives of the great French...
Compare this to historic Harvard, where students in 1638 took Headmaster Nathaniel Eaton to court for a variety of infractions, among them serving meals consisting of little more than moldy bread and beer.
Even so, publication is a triumph for scholars who have grown old waiting to see the material. Publisher Hershel Shanks of the Biblical Archaeology Society in Washington portrays his group as scholarly Robin Hoods. "This is a historic book," he says, that "broke the monopoly" on unpublished scrolls. But the...
When the unknown is operating on a historic scale, it conjures up apocalyptic projections. Dick Elkus, an advisory-board member of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, predicted, "What has happened so far is a 6.0 earthquake on its way to becoming an 8.3 -- 900 times greater...
The comrade's room reeks of the past. Above the desk hangs a portrait of Lenin, a treasured gift from Leonid Brezhnev. On another wall is a tapestry of Karl Marx, a present from fallen East German leader Erich Honecker. Elsewhere sit a replica of Lenin's telephone; a wood...