Even the lion of musical theater composers, Richard Rodgers, comes in for some withering revisionism.
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Revisionism is the endgame of the 20th century, and the retrospectives and reappraisals are adding up the score.
None of this was intended as a takedown, or as Oliver Stone-style revisionism of a towering public figure.
The lesson that Israel should take from the Times' borderline anti-Semitic historical revisionism and conspiracy theories is twofold.
In his bid to win the favor of his Islamic supremacist overlords in Hizbullah, Bustros has regularly engaged in theological revisionism.
Abe's remarks came amid growing concern in China and South Korea over what could be considered historical revisionism among Japan's top officials.
Grandiosity, denial, and revisionism are all noted indulgences of the political breed.
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When there's no happily ever after, revisionism can really set in.
His offering is a barely warm hash of thrice-cooked revisionism.
Revisionism is already offering alternative views of his achievements.
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Another example of historical revisionism, progressive-style, involves Herbert Hoover.
Arafat based his counter-claim on standard Islamic historical revisionism.
The Parsons show, conceived and carried out by Christopher Mount, director of exhibitions and public programs, is an evocative exercise in nostalgia and revisionism, with a bit of affectionate proselytizing thrown in.
But when scholars such as Zbigniew Brzezinski accuse our leaders of falsely depicting or hyping a "war on terror" to promote a "culture of fear, " it's clear that historical revisionism has gone mainstream.
At its October 21 meeting, the governing board of the UN agency charged with naming and preserving world heritage sites engaged in a shocking episode of historic revisionism in the service of Islamic supremacism.
Today our children are indoctrinated into perverse revisionism.
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If the aforementioned considerations explain the Clinton-Gore team's willingness to write-down the threat posed by North Korea's missile program on the basis of a summit meeting and highly perishable promises from Pyongyang not to continue flight tests of its long-range Taepo Dong missiles, they do not justify such revisionism.
Expressing reservations about "revisionism of what happened in history", former Cabinet member Lord Tebbit said his father and uncle, who fought in the war, would have had reservations about exercising "any form of pardon for those who had deserted their post or fallen asleep when they were on duty, thereby imperilling their colleagues".
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New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.
By all accounts, Friedan was not a person inclined to share the credit. (Some men have been known to be this way as well.) The implication that she had diagnosed a condition no one else had even managed to identify that the problem she wrote about had no name until she named it was a pretty open invitation to revisionism.
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