Word: preservationism
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The practical necessities of change v. impractical, even sentimental preservation is ever a difficult question. But at some point Chicago, like the rest of the nation, is going to have to decide that its vintage artifacts of genius are not disposable like emptied cans or old tires.
As European monks sought to preserve the remnants of Western learning during the Dark Ages, so the Marines at the Eighth and I Street barracks, an imposing brick quadrangle in the midst of the city's black ghetto, insist on maintaining the values that were the U.S. military'...
There is, moreover, a lamentable disproportion between the money deployed on buying art and the money available for preserving masterpieces that cannot, by their nature or circumstances, be sold -unmovable art like buildings, frescoes, or even entire cities of cherishable antique beauty. Only a spectacular disaster like the Florence flood...
Publication and Preservation
Sir: The New York Times [June 28] is to be commended for the publication of excerpts from the secret Pentagon report on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. At the same time, the U.S. Government's case to restrain further publication of these official secrets is justified. But on balance...