Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preservation of a Culture
For the most part, the author rightly allows the women to speak for themselves: she refrains from interpreting their words and interjects only to summarize. "I wanted to preserve their lives, not analyze them," she explains. But one wonders why she felt compelled at all to depart from her great...
Others ridicule the notion of giving such high priority to the preservation of tenure in the academic world when the area surrounding the ivory tower is experiencing an economic Dunkirk. Nothing that Michigan is being forced to release several prisoners because the state cannot afford to maintain its penitentiaries. Peter...
The man being laid to rest today was himself a jazzman. Albert Walters was his name. His melodic cornet was heard around town for more than half a century -and is still to be heard on such records as Albert Walters with the Society Jazz Band and West Indies Blues...
For years the Politburo has ruled as a secretive, inbred board of directors dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Soviet system. The euphemism for this imperative is "security." In Russian the word means literally absence of danger. Today, all the instincts of the old men in the Kremlin...