Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since the historic breakup of the Bell System in 1984, the seven local telephone companies known as the "Baby Bells" have been pleading for an end to regulations barring them from the information-services business. Last week a federal judge in Washington finally gave the companies the green light...
Conservationists and local residents have managed to stop some developments. Last summer scores of people took to France's Gardon River in canoes to protest a government project that would have brought motorized trains, parking lots, a museum and even a shopping arcade close to the historic Pont du Gard...
But, pressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has unhealthy consequences. It gives rise, for example, to the conception of the U.S. as a nation composed not of individuals making their own choices but of inviolable ethnic and racial groups. It rejects the historic American goals of assimilation and integration...
I remain optimistic. My impression is that the historic forces driving toward "one people" have not lost their power. The eruption of ethnicity is, I believe, a rather superficial enthusiasm stirred by romantic ideologues on the one hand and by unscrupulous con men on the other: self-appointed spokesmen whose...
Plainly the Slovenes have no interest in maintaining a joint tenancy. Their independence declaration states that Slovenia "will no longer be a part" of the federation and that the Yugoslav constitution will no longer apply. The longing to carve out a separate state is lodged deep in the Slovene soul...