Word: legacyism
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She learned to love machinery from her father Joseph, a printer and sometime inventor. A practical, progressive thinker, he dismissed his Jewish background; his wife Minnie Bourke was an equally forward-looking daughter of British immigrants. They taught Margaret the redemptive power of work and accomplishment and gave her the...
But the golden age of golden-arch architecture has a legacy nevertheless. California's Frank Gehry, for instance, practices a scrupulously conceived kind of rawboned Googie architecture: his buildings are striking mixes of forms, structural systems and materials, and sometimes (as in the Aerospace Museum in Los Angeles) they even...
The most fundamental issue before Aquino is how to undertake a thoroughgoing purge of Marcos' corrupt legacy without seeming authoritarian. On the local level, for example, the new government has already removed 71 of the 74 governors and 52 of the 60 city mayors who belong to Marcos' party. But...
One day in 1955, ex-President Harry S. Truman found his wife before the fireplace, burning their letters. "Bess," he protested. "Think of history." She replied, "I have." Fortunately, most of Harry's letters home were spared, thereby enhancing his legacy and helping his daughter Margaret write a gentle, warmhearted...
Female emancipation may be the one great achievement of the Baby Boomers. All sorts of kooky notions on the protest generation's agenda, from communal living to extolling "mind-expanding" drug use, have mercifully become memories. But women's liberation, minus its early stridency, has become the status quo. "We...