Word: historicization
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"A tremendous and historic victory for civil rights," exulted Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "The Supreme Court has repudiated the Meese-Reynolds attempt to gut affirmative action." | Justice officials refused to accept defeat. Meese blithely dismissed the opinions as mere pinpricks upon his policy...
The museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the...
In trying to appease Ulster's alienated Catholic minority, last year's historic agreement was intended to defuse the menace of the outlawed Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Instead, it has stirred outrage among Ulster Protestants.
About the immigrants who were naturalized on national television, complete with commercial interruptions--I wonder if they felt excited that their ceremony took place at such a historic moment, or was their experience cheapened by the commercialism surrounding it?
By insisting that the right to privacy extends only to rights "deeply rooted in the nation's history and tradition," White basically is saying that people have the right to do anything so long as it has received a historic stamp of approval from the rest of society. But if...