Word: preservationism
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To pave the alley with the "pebble stones" popular in the 1790s and to repair some plumbing, however, will cost $250,000. Applications for that sum were sent to Washington, which has a kitty for historical preservation.
Died. Billie Goodson Pierce, 67, percussive, nimble-fingered jazz pianist and blues singer who once served briefly as Bessie Smith's accompanist and blossomed in the 1960s as co-leader, with her blind, horn-playing husband DeDe Pierce, of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, elderly but exuberant purveyors of...
WHILE PRESERVATION of First Amendment rights may allow racial pseudo-scientists--both dead and alive--to briefly gain an audience, unwavering protection of free speech has served the cause of racial justice far more than hurt it. Both the demonstrators and D.W. Griffith could have had their say Saturday night...
"To protect birds is to defend humanity" seems a strange slogan for a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather strange bird himself. Every year, in addition to contributing one-third of the...
"Final decisions concerning development and preservation should be made by the people," says EPA Deputy Administrator John Quarles. "Their future is at stake, and they can make those decisions most effectively through the governments closest to them." Thus, under the EPA's plan, state and local governments will classify...