Word: legacyism
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Let's start with the biggee: the Truman factor. Both Bush and Clinton have explicitly tried to claim the legacy of Harry S Truman, A Democrat, as their own. Bush likes to see this campaign as a replay of 1948's "Dewey Defeats Truman" election, in which Truman, the incumbent...
In style, Destiny is everything Kramer has heretofore claimed to detest -- a nonrealistic memory play, crosscutting between the present in a high-powered AIDS clinic and Ned's childhood and adolescence in bourgeois-Jewish suburban Washington. The guilt he endures, the abuse, the rejection by even well- meaning relatives -- above...
When he was in the Kremlin, he began the effort to transform a dictatorship into a civil society and "a law-based state." The current hearings are intended as a continuation of that process. If Gorbachev were to have his day in court and rebut the hard-liners, it might...
The Republicans, including the President, are already back in the gutter, but Bush should salvage his dignity by stepping away. It is still within the President's power to write his own epitaph as a decent man who tried his best, a legacy he could squander if he continues the...
So we're stuck with the King's legacy. Last year in New York City, 35 baby boys were christened Elvis by their politically astute parents. And an entrepreneur announced this summer his plans for marketing a set of 660 Elvis trading cards. We're not talking about just another...