Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His devotion to minority causes has made him popular in the 18th District, which is 43% black and 31% Mexican American. Leland speaks out on global issues as well and knows how to capitalize on his flamboyance. "There's always the risk of going off the edge," says California...
Unlike almost everyone else in the world, NHK viewers seem to regard television as life enhancing and benign. The reason is that NHK actually lives up to most of its lofty goals. Launched in 1953, the TV network is self-governing and independent of all political authority. Its constitution grandly...
And there was more. Three national men's squash titles, fourth place at the NCAA women's cross country meet, the most points ever scored by Harvard in the Yale football game (The Game, that is), the preservation of the NCAA's longest current Division I swimming dual meet winning...
What turned them-and countless laymen-against such a future is that so much of it was realized. In St. Louis all 33 buildings in the unlivable concrete Pruitt-Igoe housing project were deservedly demolished in the mid-1970s. The sudden popularity of historic building preservation is, in large measure...
It is not certain how far Holbein wanted these drawings to be taken as finished works of art, but the fact that he did not discard them even when they had been developed into paintings suggests that he placed more than instrumental value on them. But whatever the cause of...