Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The cause that drew students into the streets of East Lansing in numbers unmatched since the bombing of Cambodia was neither solidarity with people halfway across the world, nor opposition to their university's "immoral investments." (MSU divested of its holdings in companies involved with South Africa several years ago...
He is supported strongly, he stressed, by a powerful religious faith. His own born-again experience, he said, had taken place in 1964 at a gospel meeting of businessmen in Washington. "My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures," he says, "which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus...
"There are things in the stacks that are simply crumbling." Charles Berlin, Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica, said yesterday. Berlin said microfilming the texts, some of which date back more than five centuries, constitutes "a form of dissemination of scholarly material for the public," adding that "preservation equals dissemination."
The best known among the few bronzes that survived from this period are the Poseidon in the Athens National Archaeological Museum and the charioteer in Delphi. In their restored state, the two statues at the Florence museum rank with this select company. Scholars and amateurs alike have been fascinated by...
Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts and chairman of the Department, attended a conference in Cairo on the preservation and restoration of Islamic monuments of the old city of Cairo.