Word: preservationism
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The big, complex nature of Harvard's collections also makes them precious--and susceptible to ruin due to age and deterioration. Heather E. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries, says "it's remarkable the way Hilles and Lamont have been built to last." While the undergraduate libraries and Widener...
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...
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...