Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This month, in what will be a major contribution to the field, the Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has begun testing a new website www.familysearch.org that eventually will be a repository of 600 million names, extracted from vital records worldwide. The...
An accumulation of signs can carry architecture only so far, because architecture in its root and essence is very much more than sign language. Yesterday's ironies wrap today's garbage. Architecture has to go deeper, find real human needs and deal with those. Foster likes to list them in...
So, where does the moon fit in? The title refers to the Apollo-11 moon landing in 1969. In a shining example of metaphor, the story's writer (Pamela Gray) uses this historic event to parallel Pearl's exploration of her own new world. On the surface, A walk on...
Next in Fritz's survey is the U.S. war with Iraq. In describing the pathetic state of the Iraqi army, he quotes a U.S. official in an Iraqi POW camps saying "We were looking for warriors. Here we got these wimps." All the same, Fritz's summary of the war...
I suppose after Nelson Mandela's visit and speech last September, any other speaker was bound to be a disappointment. For many of us in the class of '99, sitting in the front section in Tercentenary Theater at that historic event, it was better than any Commencement. Maybe it was...