Word: preservationism
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"There is not ultimately any conflict, nor can there ever be, between preserving our most precious resources and promoting opportunities for our people," he said at a forest preservation society's headquarters.
The four-member audience present at the start on Saturday, however, was rapt. Greer I. Gilman, who works at the Widener Library Preservation Department, was among those witnessing the start of the reading. Greer, who brought along her own dog-eared copy of the "obscure and very attractive book," said...
The supermodels invest salesmanship with a class and seductiveness no longer found in movie stars who dress down in blue jeans and prefer environmental preservation to nightclubbing. The top mannequins -- among them Cindy Crawford, Elaine Irwin, Karen Mulder and Claudia Schiffer -- always seem perfectly coiffed and coutured, manicured and made...
The bitter truth is that American schools have become a reflection of the nation itself: divided by race, class and aspiration -- and all too often animated by no higher calling than the selfish preservation of the status quo. A decade of educational reforms has produced incremental results, laudable but limited...
PRESERVATION HALL by William Carter (Norton; $29.95). From its beginnings on the site of an obscure French Quarter art gallery in the early 1960s, Preservation Hall became an internationally renowned Mecca for traditional New Orleans jazz. This lavishly illustrated volume chronicles the personalities and music behind one of the most...