Word: preservationism
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Some believe that Americans have entirely too much freedom: all engine, no brakes, the great vehicle careering all over the road, the Lowest Common Denominator at the wheel, grinning like an idiot, hurling beer cans out the window. In many minds, freedom is a license to indulge. If the old...
His doubts dissolved at their first meeting, in a small Los Angeles restaurant of Ringwald's choosing. "She turned out to be good company," Goodgame reports. "The conversation wandered easily from her films to the novels of Salinger and Fitzgerald, from snorkeling in Australia to the Lebanon war and the...
The CRR is nominally made up of six students and seven faculty members, but critics have charged that the membership is not chosen democratically and that the body only acts against political activists. It bases its judgments on the 1960s-era Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which stresses the preservation...
"We want to identify preservation as a major object for developers in Harvard Square...and develop regulation flexible enough to encourage good design," said Lester Barber, director of community planning. "We want to communicate with groups in Harvard Square to review development."
A number of scholars, invited to the October conference at Harvard's Faculty Club, were also outraged that Safran did not tell them the conference was CIA-backed. Others questioned the ethics of a world-renowned scholar who would blithely circumvent guidelines for the preservation of academic freedom after Harvard...