Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Beyond the Ivory Tower, collective political statements issued by university officials or faculty members should be avoided unless the matter bears directly on the principle of academic freedom or the preservation of a democratic society on which free universities depend. President Bok derives his rationale from the doctrine...
Actually, it does not take much special skill to add emotional baggage to a word. Almost any noun can be infused with skepticism and doubt through the use of the word socalled. Thus a friend in disfavor can become a so-called friend, and similarly the nation's leaders...
Now, however, a newly discovered threat to the 4,500-year-old monument poses fresh problems for conservationists. It has also triggered a scientific and political controversy. A chemical analysis of the Sphinx by K. Lal Gauri, 48, a stone-preservation expert at the University of Louisville, suggests that salt...
Lakian argues that life-time politicians ossify; they become too wrapped up in the preservation of the system, requiring a "flushing out" in the process. He favors limiting legislative tenure to 10 years for example. The logical extension of the philosophy that government officials make bad governors is that non...
Among Harvard students, the proposed herbicide conjured up a future of inadequate nostalgia and provoked a level of outrage that has not seen its peer since the Rolling Stones cancelled their Boston concerts. A Student Assembly member called the ivy "one of the graver issues of our time" and tried...