Word: legacyism
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We suspect, from his undergraduate editorials and from the course of his life, that Roosevelt would not have wanted his birthday celebrated in entirely a political fashion, and so we must comment on the peculiar paradox his centenary witnesses: a nation eager to celebrate the memory of man whose legacy...
Strobe Talbott's commentary is a superb assessment of the legacy of Karl Marx. I am not blind to the shortcomings of our political and economic system. Nevertheless, misuse of power and position, however gross, is hindered in the U.S. by internal controls and (sometimes excessive) scrutiny by a...
The wild horses of the West are a living heritage of the past, not, as you say, "mongrels of the range." There are those who would destroy this legacy, believing that only animals that turn green grass into green money should be permitted to live on the land.
Her greatest criticism of the younger generation seems not so much their rejecting the legacy of generations previous. It is their apathy that sets her off. In "We Must March My Darlings," an essay from the book by that name, Mrs. Trilling recounts her experience on her return to Harvard...
The boycott movement has always supported abolition of the CRR, and students should reaffirm that commitment this year. Over and above its procedural inequities, the CRR offends basic standards of political freedom; the idea that a university should have a political police is abhorrent. We hope the Faculty Council will...