"You're about to join history".
We need theater that joins history to ritual, and not because ritual should transcend history, but because ritual can transform it.
After the game, the Rangers' goal became joining history with the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 Islanders, who erased 3-0 deficits.
"When you sit in a pub that Soren Kierkegaard may have sat in, or one in which a Gestapo snitch was liquidated on Hitler's birthday in 1944 and there's still a bullet in the wall, your days join history and join the continuum of it," Mr. Kennedy said.
-- Susan Parker,on "A Long Day and Night Ahead at City Hall" NEW YORK DAYBOOK A Bomb's Effects War begets art, which begets talk of war: Join history and physics experts for "Wartime Decisions and the Atomic Age," a symposium born of the opera "Doctor Atomic," which opens at the Met next week.
Amateurs and the less-accomplished join history-making greats in its pages, vividly explaining why they seek adventure.
W. left office in 2009 with a cellar-floor approval rating (although President Obama's isn'tmuch higher these days); and, for what they're worth, polls of presidential scholars tend to place #43 in the bottom-ten of American presidents, where he joins history-class inside-jokes like Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, and Warren G. Harding.
"1989 was the year Chinese history joined world history," he said.
He went on to teach at Princeton and Johns Hopkins, and in 1973 joined the history department at Harvard, where he was the Charles Warren professor of American history until his retirement in 1991.
In 1980, she joined the history department at Wisconsin-Madison, where she created the university's doctoral program in women's history.
