Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Perkins observes, "Some Houses you go into, you wouldn't know whether the Masters are here or in Timbuktu. A Master if he is enthusiastic about the House, is infectious." Such enthusiasm, he says will remain crucial "if the Houses and the House system continue to be the elements...
But somehow lost in this pop analysis was the Burkean conservative, the breed who valued the preservation of the State above all goals. The ideological descendants of 18th-century British politician Edmund Burke claim exclusive control of the cherished title "conservative," dismissing Ronald Reagan as a "Manchester liberal" who is...
Although the Kennedy-Hatfield resolution has attracted only 20 supporters in the Senate, it has a better chance of passage in the House, which last week held an extraordinary eight-hour arms-control debate. The most recent comparable session was a discussion of the Viet Nam War in 1969. In...
The three dissenters chided their brethren for showing too little deference to the Legislative Branch. "Congress is not an administrative agency that is required to state the grounds upon which it acts," wrote Judge George MacKinnon, himself a one-term Congressman. Moreover, he argued, veterans' groups are distinctive. Said...
Readers who cannot solve these riddles represent an even rarer species than the Mockery. But the author's aim is not suspense or, in the end, farce. Despite some antic set pieces and a detailed sense of place, the naturalist declares his true intention in a Tailpiece-translation: public...