The very word "legacy" evokes ancestors handing down something valuable from one generation to the next, and American institutions are not historically known for promoting the intergenerational accumulation of wealth, achievement or privilege among people of color.
What matters for these survivors is the need to preserve and hand down something of their shared history, connecting generation to generation.
He called it "an ideological break with the past" and dismissed the very notion of social security: "Security as something handed down; welfare as bureaucratic transfer; people as recipients of funds".
In his first speech as secretary of state for work and pensions, in 2008, James Purnell underlined the significance of this move: "My title … embodies an ideological break with the past... What a telling name: security as something handed down; welfare as bureaucratic transfer; people as recipients of funds … The new title tells a wholly different story.
Despite the enthusiasm and support at the strategic level or "blunt end," medical ward staff, for the most part, tended either to know relatively little about SPI1 procedures, practices, and principles, or viewed them as handed down (top down) rather than something they were involved in developing (bottom up).
"Persian cooking is really something that has to be handed down.
It's not illogical to think Trump wanted Whitaker to take oversight of the Russia probe before potential indictments of Roger Stone and even Donald Trump Jr. were handed down — or something else.
When the sentence was handed down, it was something of an anti-climax.
Hardball squash was a Wasp birthright, something handed down along with seersucker, circumspection, and a reflexive way with a thank-you note.
On the Huffington Post, Peretti explains, news is not something handed down from above but "a shared enterprise between its producer and its consumer".
A generation or more ago, aside from what people did in their home or from what's roughly called folk or outsider art, culture was generally thought of as something handed down from on high, which the public received.
