Word: legacyism
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Behind the bland, avuncular exterior, Segovia was a man of strong feelings. The electric guitar, of course, was anathema, and he denounced rock music as a "strange, terrible and dangerous disease." He often compared the guitar to a woman and boasted of his fidelity, yet he married three times. Nor...
Not only did the Plan achieve its immediate aim of stabilizing Western Europe against potential incursions by radical political movements--especially Soviet--supported communist parties--it also created frameworks for European economic cooperation and the Atlantic Alliance. Yet today the Plan's legacy has been all but exhausted. European economic...
In the 1980's, the country is struggling with the legacy of those unsettling years. Experts in a broad spectrum of professions say America is currently in an ethical vacuum, searching for a new code to replace the tattered shreds of post-World War II moralism. Technological improvements have created...
Mayor of Berlin before he became president three years ago, von Weizsacker has become the most acclaimed commentator on the legacy of the Nazi years, a man whose speeches are carefully charted as indicators of Germany's evolving attitudes toward its past.
The JVs did not fare as well. A valiant effort, but unrewarded with the tangent, visible manifestations of victory. No trophy to reward the long hours of work at Red Top. Humiliation and shame is the immediate legacy of their race. The sickening feeling of failure felt in the muscles...