Word: restorationism
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Barcelona did not develop smoothly. It has had three convulsive spasms of rebuilding and self-renewal, with long stretches of inertia in between. The most recent one began in the late 1970s and has been going on for the past 10 years under Barcelona's socialist Mayor Maragall: the refashioning...
The basis for doubts about Russia's long-term commitment to "Westernness" lies not in Yeltsin or his democratic supporters but in the ambivalence about the West that still seems endemic to many Russians. Admiration has historically been tinged with resentment of Western arrogance and conquest in the past (Napoleon...
Similar restoration would help relations on a campus like Harvard's, where students stand so firmly on their own ground that they often don't bother chipping back to see what's underneath. The crises I've seen on campus so far--about race relations, about sexual politics, about religion...
Parker's Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo series, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) and now widely available in U.S. record stores for the first time, is a miracle of sound restoration. Starting with mint- condition 78s (his collection numbers more than 20,000), Parker applies a variety of...
Corzo brought in a celebrated Italian husband-and-wife team of art restorers, Paolo and Laura Mora, who led six Italian and four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to...