Word: legacyism
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Western Europe's most substantial challenges, however, are economic readjustment and realignment. As in the U.S., old industries like steel, coal mining and shipbuilding are going out of business. Unlike the U.S., Western Europe has been slow to find high-technology replacements. Businessmen must cope with extensive bureaucratic controls and...
The most conspicuous and skillful example of a leftward tilt is the R.S.C.'s anti-imperialist version of Shakespeare's celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands...
In all, the U.S. delegation voted no on three sections of the document: one blaming women's unequal status on developed countries' refusal to redistribute the world's wealth, another calling for economic sanctions against South Africa, and a third criticizing Israel's occupation of the West Bank. These votes...
Prior to the past few weeks, there was much talk that the conclave that replaced John Paul might discount relatively youthful papabili like Schönborn, 60, and Rodríguez Maradiaga, 62. Reason: after John Paul's multidecade marathon, the electors would, as McBrien puts it, "be looking for a breather...
“We all gathered together here to confront this very hard legacy of violence and exclusion and to envision a future that was inclusive and would be about language exchange,†said Brooks.