Sentences with phrase «daley bicentennial»

To celebrate the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal and the 150th anniversary of glassmaking in the city of Corning, the Corning Museum of Glass in May will launch GlassBarge, a canal barge outfitted with glassmaking equipment.

In New York state, a multiyear celebration marking the bicentennial of the construction of the Erie Canal is underway along the canal corridor, which includes major cities like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.

Between 2010 and 2016, Maryland's standard - issue license plate commemorated the War of 1812 in honor of the bicentennial of the conflict.

Legendary retailer Macy's is a mere 12 years from celebrating the bicentennial of its founding and six years from celebrating the 100th anniversary of its famous Thanksgiving Day Parade — originally known as the Christmas Parade — in New York City.

The city was going to use the money for a bicentennial celebration next year.

The test of vigilance which faces the American public comes in the year of our bicentennial when most of all we should, in the words of Tom Paine, «refresh our patriotism by reference to first principles.»

The U.S. Catholic Bishops» Statement on the Middle East, adopted unanimously during the bishops» fall 1989 bicentennial meeting in Baltimore, is a surprisingly straightforward document.

The city was going to use the money for a bicentennial celebration...

More than a few pundits have recently bemoaned the absence of breakthroughs or excitement in the observations of the Constitution's bicentennial.

The bicentennial celebration of the United States Constitution has naturally produced a flurry of books on the subject.

In 1973 I gave the lectures (at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati) that would be published as The Broken Covenant in 1975, and would in turn project me into an intensive year of public speaking during the 1976 Bicentennial.

Here is a short excerpt of an address I'll be delivering at Geneseo College devoted to Lincoln's Bicentennial: Of course, the occasion for my lecture today is the Bicentennial celebration of Abraham's Lincoln's birth.

Of course, the occasion for my lecture today is the Bicentennial celebration of Abraham's Lincoln's birth.

It's worth noting that today is also the bicentennial....

It's worth noting that today is also the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth especially since the two have enjoyed, or suffered, very different fates at the hands of modern historical scholarship and the popular consciousness it helps fashion.

Here is a short excerpt of an address I'll be delivering at Geneseo College devoted to Lincoln's Bicentennial:

As America embarks upon its bicentennial celebration, it should be remembered that there are millions of citizens who have been excluded from the American dream.

In the spring of 1976, I took my New Hampshire youth group to Philadelphia for the bicentennial celebrations.

Thus Ferdinand Mount, in an otherwise astute essay on America's bicentennial, comments on the shock effect of Watergate: What Europeans are bewildered by is the American's affectation of pained surprise on receiving a specific proof of the corruption he knows to be endemic to his political system.

Cheering onlookers waved balloons, flags and banners as the pope arrived at Bicentennial Park in Mexico's Guanajuato state.

Both the First Amendment bicentennial and the current travails of Christian ecumenism have brought into focus the question of how the dual ideals of unity and diversity can coexist.

This condition is one factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity for its life and work.»

Yet from constitutional centennial to bicentennial, successive generations of American Jews had been taught to believe that the fondness for «Old Testament» metaphors in American public discourse displayed the fundamental continuity between ancient Jewish and modern American values — when, in fact, these metaphors expressed a flourishing Christian triumphalism.

I remember the day Nixon resigned, and I touched the Liberty Bell in 1976 during the Bicentennial celebrations.

In describing the situation in America, John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore, the bicentennial of whose episcopal election and consecration is also observed this year, told Rome that «our Religious system has undergone a revolution... more extraordinary, than our political one.»

For American Catholics, 1989 is a year crowded with anniversaries, including the centennial of the founding of the Catholic University of America and the bicentennial of both the establishment of Georgetown University (and, by extension, of Jesuit education) and the erection of the American hierarchy.

One little - noted fact in this bicentennial year is that our country, which was born in revolution, has been opposed to all recent revolutions and in most cases has tried to undermine them.

In late June of 1988, Pace travelled to St. Louis to appear at the climax of an ABC - TV three - hour special celebrating the Fourth of July, the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and literacy.

Some evidence of these changes is given by W. Richie Hogg in «The Role of American Protestantism in World Missions,» in American Missions in Bicentennial Perspective, ed.

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.

Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»

We might have hoped that a political campaign for the presidency in that bicentennial year or the recent 1980 campaign would have been educative in the high republican sense of the term.

In that context we can understand the bicentennial epigram written by Harry Jaffa, one of the few political scientists who continues the great tradition today: «In 1776 the United States was so to speak nothing; but it promised to become everything.

Those who have known the renowned Basel professor only as the re-creator or a vast system of orthodox and dogmatic theology have no doubt been amazed at his active contribution to the bicentennial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

In the recently published six - volume Bicentennial History of the Catholic Church in the United States, James Hennesey sums up, in contemporary form and with due regard for the archbishop's flaws, the classic case for Carroll.

In the case of the national bicentennial four years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep as well as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues of American existence.

Since all observers of the bicentennial should read this well - paced paperback, we will not visit its chapters in detail.

Founded in America's Great Bicentennial Year of 1976 in Boulder, Colo., by Frank Day, Old Chicago established one of the first loyalty programs in the bar business — the World Beer Tour.

The Independence Bowl began in 1976 in honor of the country's bicentennial celebration and will host its 42nd game in 2017.

Guests can stroll through charming walkways at the Bicentennial Commons, catch at football game at Paul Brown Stadium, visit Fountain Square, and more!

It was the Bicentennial, and the city was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Michigan will wear a new all - maize uniform in celebration of the University of Michigan Bicentennial and in honor of the 150 - year anniversary of the school's official colors: maize and blue.

Along with being the Bicentennial,»76 is also an Olympic year, so the NCAA should reserve space at courtside for the KGB scouts next March.

In a revolutionary finish in the bicentennial year, Greg LeMond of Wayzata, Minn., stormed into Paris on Sunday afternoon and snatched the Tour de France from the French pretender.

Nineteen seventy - six is the Bicentennial year, and everyone with a game to sell is heading for Philadelphia to ring the Liberty Bell.

To avoid any possible ambiguities, let there be no more on - air mention of the late Sir bleep Churchill or to his speeches in the British bleep; no chatter in this bicentennial season about early colonists like Sir Walter bleep; no references to the bleep witch trials.

The Shadow Ceremony is at noon on Bicentennial Plaza in front of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Encouraged to «write something» in time for the 2007 Bicentennial, Pam compiled and published Celebrating Whittier, New England's Quaker Poet and Abolitionist: America's 1907 Centennial.

As a member of the Exhibit Committee preparing for the Bicentennial of his birth (1807), she chose to research the events surrounding the Centennial, or 100th anniversary, in 1907.

A preliminary building plan for the Chicago Children's Museum at Daley Bicentennial Plaza — one that would nearly double the museum's current size and rebuild the Grant Park fieldhouse — will be unveiled to the public next week.