Word: preservationism
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And so we have the four Gospels. It has been fashionable among New Testament scholars for most of the 20th century to say that the Gospels are not what they claim to be: brief biographies. Yet their special claim would seem to be the preservation of reliable accounts of the...
The rest of the story plays out literally like an irreversible reaction. Rothko, who in addition to being radically innovative with subject matter, was also extremely experimental with media, haphazardly using a variety of unstable compounds such as egg whites and cheap Woolworth's paint. For the Harvard murals, Rothko...
During the abbreviated Senate consideration of CTBT, many Senators raised concerns about verification and preservation of a safe, reliable nuclear deterrent. We take these concerns seriously and are prepared to explore a variety of ways to resolve them. We believe that, with hard work, favorable action on CTBT will become...
Not so many decades ago, those advocating the preservation of wilderness constituted a small minority and were considered to be on the radical fringe. Such pastimes as mountaineering and backpacking were thought to be the exclusive domain of outcasts, anarchists and social misfits. But there has been a broad-based...
Backcountry activities have become extremely trendy, a fad that has been eagerly abetted by Madison Avenue. These days it's impossible to turn on a television or open a magazine without being assaulted by a barrage of ads that use skillfully packaged images of wilderness activities to rev the engine...