Word: historicization
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Born into a wealthy Coptic Christian family, Boutros-Ghali grew up speaking three languages -- Arabic, French and English. He earned a Ph.D. in international law from the Sorbonne, then went on to a career as a professor of law at Cairo University and as a writer. He was tapped by...
For a lame duck, George Bush was flying high and fast -- both literally and symbolically. First he logged 8,000 miles from Washington to Somalia, where he greeted 1993 with troops he had dispatched there a month ago to relieve starvation. The President spent New Year's Eve in Mogadishu...
Once America was the great exporter of trends -- not just fads, like multiple earrings and cholesterol anxiety, but whole new life-styles involving characteristic garments and substances of choice. In 1967, for example, the first hippies were detected in San Francisco, and within a year the historic fountains of Europe...
While it seemed that Clinton had merely adapted his campaign techniques to * reflect the fact that many people take their cues from television talk shows, he had actually (and typically) studied the problem of changing perceptions quite rigorously. A treatise Clinton has found particularly useful in this regard is Reich...
One thing missing from the display is photographs of the society's actual exhibitions. Dreifus asked John P. Coolidge '35, who was one of the Society's undergraduate executives, about the lack of existing photographs. "He said, `Well, you know, Joanna, if you were to go to the athletic building...