ahistorical, line (APPROACH TO SUBJECT), facsimile

Because of his popularity, a bad sign to many art world insiders, Wyeth came to represent middle-class values and ideals that modernism claimed to reject, so that arguments about his work extended beyond painting to societal splits along class, geographical and educational lines.
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Michael Meyer, who documents Qianmen’s hutong life in his book “The Last Days of Old Beijing,” says most residents are not terribly nostalgic about the old city. For them, a freshly painted facsimile of a 500-year-old Buddhist temple is just fine.

fac・sim・i・le

  

━━ n. 複写, 複製; ファクシミリ, ファックス ((略 fax.)).
 in facsimile　複写で［の］; そっくりに［の］.
━━ vt. 複写［複製］する; ファックスで送る.
━━ a. 複写の.

line (APPROACH TO SUBJECT)
noun [C]
a way of dealing with or thinking about something or someone:
The government's official line has always been to refuse to negotiate with terrorists.
The courts should take a tougher line with (= punish more severely) sex offenders.
Several Labour MPs disagree with their party's line on taxation.
What sort of line (= method of arguing) do you think we should take in the pay negotiations?
The police are confident that this new line of inquiry will lead them to the murderer.
It seems inevitable that the country will be divided along ethnic lines.



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1.	on Page 49:
	"... specialized sciences focused on short-term processes rather than long-term change over time."' In the 1920s and 1930s at Chicago, this ahistorical study of social process grew in importance, exemplified by Merriam's and Lasswell's works on political power and Gosnell's studies of ..."
2.	on Page 58:
	"... Simon's work also reflected the Chicago School's concern with change, interdependence, and subjectivity. In keeping with the ahistorical trend of political science in the 1930s, ..."
3.	from Back Matter:
	"... A Framework for Political Inquiry (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950). 85. Neoclassical economics, for example, becomes almost totally ahistorical in reaction to the German Historical School. ..."

Dictionary:

ahistorical

(ā'hĭ-stôr'ĭ-kəl, -stŏr'-)
adj.
Unconcerned with or unrelated to history, historical development, or tradition: “All of this is totally ahistorical. There is virtually no evidence in the historical record to support any of it” (Heritage Foundation Reports).