Word: legacyism
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You know what it's like. The party ended late the night before; with a throbbing head, you stumble downstairs to look at the living room - and God, it's a mess. That's how Athenians feel. The Olympic flame was extinguished at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens 10...
But as much as any professional historian or Lincoln scholar, the pretend Lincolns show us why the 16th President remains such a colossus in the American imagination. These men are a little freaky, but through their eyes--often set in a hard stare to mimic those dreary 19th century portraits...
That was Cardinal Sin's philosophy too. Up until the day he died, he was devouring newspapers and demanding thrice-daily reports on the crises hitting Arroyo, according to his brother and his private secretary (though this time Sin had not made his views public). Cardinal Sin's legacy is...
By locking out the modern world, the country has also, in effect, locked in the legacy of its British past, and with it an air of sweet nostalgia. In the pine-scented hill station of Maymyo (named after one Colonel May), tidy rose gardens still grace half-timbered houses with...
The manuscript is marred by fragmented sentences and unanswered questions. It ends nearly two decades before Schneider's career did; his widow Jean writes that he left the makings of another volume, but does not explain how anyone could authentically complete it. Still, Entrances has so much to say that...