Word: revolutionism
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Time, we think, lends perspective to the way in which we consider historical events. The passing of years helps us to understand what it was that happened long ago - as we could not when we were caught up in all its immediacy. Much as an artist is able to do...
New York City Sept. 24, 2001 Congress had become a coalition government; defense is not foreign policy anymore, it's domestic. President Bush declared a state of emergency and called up the reserves; Congress wrote a $40 billion check. Soldiers at home and around the world were on high alert...
DIED. Wang Guangmei, 85, elegant former first lady of China who was targeted during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Wang suffered because of a falling out between her husband ex-President Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong--which landed Liu in jail, where he died--as well as the jealous rage...
The portrait is the work of one of colonial America’s most distinguished artists. Copley, born in Boston in 1738, had ties to the Tories who supported British rule during the time of the American Revolution. He left Massachusetts for London in 1774 and never returned to his...
Through the chilled autumn air, a shrill, quasi-melodic screech pierces the rumbling din of cars, buses, and intermingled conversations that form the acoustic character of Harvard Square. The sound emanates from the two-stringed jinghu, a Chinese opera fiddle, played by Zhi Z. Zhou, who is in his early...