Word: legacyism
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The following night, it was the women's turn. But instead of protecting a lead, the U.S. team was chasing the Rumanians. With Comaneci in residence at the team quarters in the Olympic Village (and introduced each night to an ovation from the crowd), Rumania's women could...
The so-called Vietnam legacy is a potent political tool these days, and Karnow, who makes strong claims to historical objectivity in his book and documentary, must realize that his current educational mission can only work to raise fears about any military involvement abroad.
Even so, Humphrey managed to leave behind a legacy of liberal legislation that has survived three Republican Administrations. In a 1977 poll of 1,000 leading Capitol Hill figures, he was named the top Senator of the past 75 years. (Humphrey, then fatally ill with cancer, responded to the news...
As Fidel Castro's onetime comrade-in-arms and a quixotically unsuccessful exporter of revolution in Latin America, the late Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is a Marxist cult figure of high standing. Last week his chief legacy was a hot capitalist property and the object of hectic legal maneuvering in...
The election is also a referendum on the legacy of a man who has virtually vanished from public sight: Menachem Begin. Whether proclaiming his dream of Eretz Yisrael, whose biblical boundaries include the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or defending the controversial 1982 war in Lebanon, Begin hewed to a...