Word: historyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years after Alan M. Brinkley was denied tenure, the History Department tenured a professor from inside its own ranks for the first time in two decades--one. The once-uniformly white male Harvard Corporation named a woman to its ranks--one. Harvard named a woman--one--to the position...
The truly substantive changes between the Harvard of 1989 and that of 1979 pale in comparison to the previous 10 years, or the 10 before that. The commotion of the past 10 years, the new policy initiatives and the new deans, the recurring waves of student protest seemed important at...
So who is right? Reagan or me? According to a famous saying inscribed on the keychains of many evil dictators, it depends on which of us wins. After all, history is written by the victors...
IF DAN Quayle wins, the history of the '80s will be written in short sentences with lots of simple words. America is good. You can do anything you set your mind to. Hello, my name is Dan Quayle. (Note: If Quayle wins, history will become the gut major.)
IT'S ACTUALLY fairly unlikely that any one person or group will win. But people tend to describe history as if they already have. Just watch the 3000 review shows about to appear on television, all entitled, "looking back at the 1980s." And ask yourself how you would write the...