Word: legacyism
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“The amazing thing about stories is that they, in fact, travel,” novelist Chinua Achebe explains, using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its...
Trade. During the election campaign, Obama, needing the support of labor unions and working-class voters, vowed a dramatic retreat from America's free-trade agenda. He opposes the U.S. - South Korea trade deal and promised "a change from the U.S. policy approach [toward China] of the past eight years...
The last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell, who died on Nov. 12 at 61, carried on as keeper of Hendrix's legacy long after the guitarist's death in 1970. Indeed, he had just completed a 19-city U.S. tour--Experience Hendrix--with blues star...
Recognition that Atatürk was all too human is hardly taboo-breaking, but the film has the secularist establishment, which sees itself as the guardian of Atatürk's legacy, up in arms. Critics have accused director Can Dundar, a popular and well-respected journalist, of lying, insulting...
The controversy is yet another reflection of the epic struggle under way regarding Turkey's future. Secularists fear that Atatürk's legacy is threatened by the Islamic-rooted ruling party, and they look to the military for protection. The government denies it has any secret Islamicizing ambitions. Meanwhile...