Word: revolutionize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The blurbs on the back cover of The End of Equality ttry to paint Kaus' message as a radical departure from American political practice. Author Lawrence Mead goes so far as to name Kaus "the inventor of Civic Liberalism. "But despite the book-jacket bluster, Kaus' solution is as old...
Harrison travels to Rumania a few days after the 1989 revolution to seek out Comenici's family and past. She stunningly juxtaposes the vitality of the awakening nation with hardened gymnast's artificiality.
Describing the intense, uncertain optimism of Bucharest a few days after the revolution, for example, she writes that "it is like being present at a birth--one is full of trepidation and of joy, pity, terror: life."
Above all that, quickening the surfaces now, is the newest thing, a lively entrepreneurial city -- Western glitz and electronics and hard money flowing in; the platzes swarming with backpackers; McDonald's opening a second branch, this one on Wenceslas Square, where the "velvet revolution" transpired in November 1989. The new...
When the revolution erupted in 1917, Nicholas reacted with bizarre passivity. He abdicated and went quietly into exile in Tobolsk, relieved to have exchanged his gilded prison for a more tranquil confinement. But this soft-spoken autocrat, whose exquisite manners and flickering will had once led a courtier to describe...