Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For Einstein to become a modern icon, especially in America, required a total revision of the definition of a hero. Anti-intellectualism has been as integral a part of American culture as the drive for universal education, and the fact that both have existed concurrently may account for the low...
Harvard officials, including President Neil L. Rudenstine, spoke out against this reduction, and Harvard's lobbyist joined advocates for other schools in pushing for a revision of the act.
Crane's name was his frame: a gangly galoot and, when he fell for buxom Katrina Van Tassel, an easy prey for the burly lads of Sleepy Hollow. In Burton's revision and Depp's incarnation, Crane is a Manhattan constable sent upriver to solve a murder; predating Poe's...
The only attempt to modernize the work in the past 370 years was a 1934 revision of Andrew Motte's 1729 translation.
Although Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-73 admitted that the change would probably have very little impact on the College's applicants, we laud the revision of policy all the same. Especially considering the growing trend among students to apply to collge early, we understand that the change...