Word: historicization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Americans should take pride, not in empty formulas of tolerance and diversity, but in the historic content of their culture, in forms as homely as Benjamin Franklin's how-to-get-rich maxims, or as sublime as Lincoln's second Inaugural Address. There is no need to say to those...
General Services Administration officials at first refused to halt construction of the skyscraper, but congressional intervention, complaints from New York's city hall and a shower of protests from black organizations forced the GSA to cancel its plans. The site is now part of a proposed historic district.
But Bush sets more historic goals for himself than re-election. He has declared the U.S. to be the world's only superpower and outlined his concept of a new world order under its aegis. The essence of that order was to be the rule of law and collective action...
Still, small cracks are showing in the President's facade. Confidants say he privately sounds "wounded" by a public that takes for granted his leadership in the Gulf War and his prudent oversight of communism's collapse. Sometimes this petulant attitude slips out in public, as when Bush recently observed...
By the year 2000 AIDS could become the largest epidemic of the century, eclipsing the influenza scourge of 1918. That disaster killed 20 million people, or 1% of the world's population -- more than twice the number of soldiers who died in World War I. "This epidemic is of historic...