Word: legacyism
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From trying to salvage that one second on the clock to running out all his groundouts on the baseball team, Giardi wanted it bad, as bad as a drowning man wants a breath, and that will be his legacy at Harvard.
The most polished of the new breed is Gianfranco Fini, 42, who deftly transformed the once frankly neofascist Italian Social Movement, founded in 1946, and unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections in March...
By the late 1950s, De Kooning was surrounded by imitators; there was a "look," a gestural rhetoric fatally easy to mimic, that they got from him and reduced to parody. (The artists who would really make something of his legacy were not in New York but in California: Richard Diebenkorn...
But what? How about a sacrifice? Unlike baseball managers, Presidents can't be fired until the next election. In politics, it's the appointed players who go. Soon that player may be Warren Christopher. Friends and associates of the Secretary of State are quietly discussing his possible departure, hints of...
The current dearth of Black academics at Harvard is bound up with a legacy of American racism. The sins of fathers are, indeed, visited upon children. Yet we would do better merely to confront that ugly truth than to delude ourselves into thinking that the total erasure of past wrongs...