Word: preservationism
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Voices and egos are reduced in such a setting. Thoughts are proffered with some reluctance. Yet the talk in this small place shows that the tax revolt is firmly rooted. Here is a clear vestige of the California-contrived Laffer Curve (the correlation between rising taxes and falling incentive). The...
The battle to save Grand Central began when New York City named the terminal a landmark in 1967. This meant that its owner, the nearly bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Co., could not make any changes on the building's exterior without permission from the city's landmarks-preservation...
How should the balance be struck? The court never answered. Instead, it found an "additional unique element that was neither advanced by the parties nor given appropriate consideration by the courts below." That "element" was the 1974 Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, under which the GSA took custody of...
Furthermore, Dunlop, who has a nimble intelligence and no inconsiderable gifts in stagecraft, seems either to have missed or ignored the moral point of the play. Rome is at the flash point at which a republic blazes into tyranny. Into the crucible of history, the conspirators, and especially Brutus, pour...
Perhaps the finest achievement is the depiction of the Germans. In most movies or TV shows that describe the Third Reich, the Nazis are heel-clicking automatons who run around yelling "Heil Hitler!" The effect of such theatrics is to rob genocide of its meaning; audiences can dismiss the Final...