Word: legacyism
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The central bank's reserves have dwindled to about $14 billion, and the Kremlin's great fear is that it will have to devalue the ruble. That would cruelly increase prices for ordinary Russian citizens, cause social and political upheaval and dash Yeltsin's hopes for his legacy as a...
He called it La Ville Radieuse, the Radiant City. Despite the poetic title, his urban vision was authoritarian, inflexible and simplistic. Wherever it was tried--in Chandigarh by Le Corbusier himself or in Brasilia by his followers--it failed. Standardization proved inhuman and disorienting. The open spaces were inhospitable; the...
Winfrey saw television's power to blend public and private; while it links strangers and conveys information over public airwaves, TV is most often viewed in the privacy of our homes. Like a family member, it sits down to meals with us and talks to us in the lonely afternoons...
Yet a theatrical legacy cannot always be measured by such seemingly objective yardsticks. Though there is no film of Nijinsky dancing, no one questions his place of honor in the history of 20th century ballet. Even if her beleaguered company should someday close its doors and her dances cease to...
In order to the institution, opponents of the bill proposed an amendment that would merely add the signature of the Dean of Harvard College to women's diplomas. Thus the diplomas would continue to recognize Radcliffe's legacy while elevating the presence of Harvard College on the diplomas.