Word: legacyism
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Hidekatsu Tojo, 53, eldest grandson of Hideki Tojo, Japan's wartime Prime Minister, who was hanged for his crimes in 1948, is dealing with the war's legacy in a different way: by pursuing a singing career. His first record is a war requiem called Under the Southern Cross. "The...
The there is part of the taste problem: the museum has been constructed within the rebuilt shell of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. At first King's family dissociated themselves from the museum because of this macabre legacy, though Coretta Scott King...
Despite this legacy, minorities now share in the game's broad popularity. On Southern California's public links, typically up to one-third of the players are black or Hispanic. At the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, where the initiation fee is $60,000, general manager Bill Masse says...
Nevertheless, Jamison was eager to stand on her own, and she left the Ailey troupe in 1980. But the mystical bond between them never weakened. So in 1988, when Ailey, ill with a rare blood disorder, invited Jamison to accompany him on what would be his last tour, she didn...
Serfdom in Russia and slavery in the U.S. were both abolished in the 1860s, but the legacy of serfdom has been even more enduring. No wonder; only about 12% of the inhabitants of the U.S. were enslaved in 1860, but almost two- thirds of the Russian empire's people were...