Now, it is a wood-paneled, more-sedate, more-opulent vehicle, which has little in common with the Volkswagens that have historically lined high school parking lots across the country.
Today, skyskrapers have replaced the industrial structures that historically lined the riverbanks of the nations most significant inland port.
Historically, "The Line of Beauty" picks up where "The Swimming-Pool Library" concluded, in the summer of 1983, the last summer before AIDS began its grim reaping.
"Historically, the line between radical elements of the right and elite elements of the L.D.P. has been a very thin one," said Sheldon M. Garon, a professor of Japanese history at Princeton.
Rinehart has it right, I think: the significance of the idea that he might have been black is that it is a symptom of classical music's ossified canons, and a bigger story of cultural-racial politics, rather than a historically accurate line of questioning.
The statement by Mr. Obama's wife, Michelle, that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country," has been invoked by Republicans in an effort to portray Mr. Obama as culturally unlike the people he is asking to vote for him, a historically potent line of attack.
Historically, that line of thinking has not gone well, and for all the care Hays puts into recognizing the dangers I remain unconvinced that he avoids them.
Historically, the line between supporting and operating schools has been one they did not want to cross given the special venom for private enterprise when it takes outcome responsibility.
While many fairs are notorious for having nonstop free food and gallons of booze for their top tier clients, ALAC had a local restaurant selling food and had an historically long line for booze - the brands of which appeared limited to that of fair sponsors.
