Word: historicization
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On April 18, the Vermont state senate passed historic legislation that legalized "civil unions" for gay and lesbian couples. The bill, which created what has been called "the closest thing to gay marriages," granted these couples approximately 300 of the rights and benefits associated with traditional marriage, including inheritance rights...
My dad, brother and I watched Larry Doby, the first black to play in the American League, repeatedly chase down baseballs of the 1949 Red Sox. During the 1950s, we ventured into Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox host the hated Yankees for 4th of July doubleheaders (bleacher seats...
Fenway Park is an original. Boston prides itself on originals. The historic home of the Red Sox, Fenway Park--commissioned in 1912 before World War I--is an artifact that makes Boston baseball unique. A new stadium in the Fens changes forever the meaning of "Red Sox nation." A new...
Putin, who visited Britain last week and has scheduled a June summit with President Clinton, has taken other measures to postpone any potential cloud of scandal hanging over his image-building campaign in the West. He also recently pressured the Duma to put off historic hearings into the Bank of...
But unlike the American flag, which is the symbol of a country (and hence the nation's historic goods and evils) the Confederate flag no longer symbolizes a "proud nation defeated" but the oppression of blacks. It is important to remember that the "Stars and Bars" has not been flying...