Word: historicization
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Why are women making such exceptional political headway in California? San Diego's liberal Republican Mayor, Susan Golding, once ventured a theory. Women, she said, more naturally represent that state's particular, two-beat public pulse: socially progressive and fiscally conservative. Or, up with choice and down with taxes. If...
Three times Time Inc. expressed its support for Nixon as President, with endorsements that appeared in LIFE. Twice we chose him as Man of the Year: in 1972, primarily for his historic opening of China, and the following year (in tandem with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) for forging stable...
Tuesday: Attended a Council of Europe parliamentary meeting in Strasbourg, where he complained about the limited visa he'd been given. He told fellow parliament members, "You are not democrats, you are agents of the CIA." He hurled clumps of tulips at student protesters and boasted that his singular political...
That day in 1968, a year before the historic takeover of University Hall, a group called the Association of African and African-American Students (AAAAS) issued its "Four Requests on Fair Harvard."
The protesters of 1969--in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their demands for severance of the University's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps and their call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department--defined a historic, activist era at Harvard.