Word: restorationism
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If Ellis Island was a paradox, a place where dreams bumped up against bureaucracy, it was no less a place where one of the most powerful currents of American life flowed by. Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants first touched U.S. soil there. Forty percent of all Americans can...
The Israelis staunchly backed Cheney's view that it is wiser to dispose of Saddam now than face graver peril doing so later. But the opposing camp, led by National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, won out with its admonition against expanding U.S. war aims beyond restoration of the status quo...
Almost any way you look at it, it is senseless to pay a penny more than necessary for oil. Consider the environment. Why aren't conservatives these days clamoring for the restoration of a free market instead of clamoring to open up fragile strips of America's coastline? What sense...
In fact, there is a slight shift in library priorities. During the '80s the emphasis was on restoration. Gregorian liked to call the main building the "people's palace"; the library became perhaps the city's most fashionable benefit cause. But, reflecting the Bush era, the new buzz word is...
Sound familiar? It could be the plot from any one of innumerable comedies written by innumerable authors on the Continent and in Britain from the time of the Renaissance to beyond the Restoration.