Word: historicization
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There was none of the crackling tension of Army v. McCarthy or Iran-contra, yet last week's hearings of the Senate ethics committee were almost as historic. Never before had five Senators faced the judgment of their peers in such a public tribunal. Seated at separate tables to underscore...
THE Catholic Church is not an ideally liberal institution. Its historic treatment of women, homosexuals, Jews and heretic Christians, among others, has been quite appalling. Although the Church is truly universal in that it includes members from all races and on all continents, its Roman hierarchy is still dominated by...
DIED. William French Smith, 73, who served Ronald Reagan as a personal lawyer in California and then as U.S. Attorney General; of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Attorney General from 1981 to 1985, Smith championed efforts to weaken civil rights laws and antitrust enforcement. His most historic act: advocating the...
Child care in America has become a kind of vast social experiment. Not only has the archetypal nuclear family of the 1950s (working father, stay-at-home wife) given way to a myriad of customized arrangements, each as unique as a baby's toeprint, but this historic shift has been...
The opposition was far from convinced. Takako Doi, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, the largest opposition group, called the legislation the "greatest threat to the constitution since the war." Student organizations staged peace demonstrations. Even some members of Kaifu's own party suggested that if the legislation failed, the...