Word: restorationism
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Though the names of the novel's characters have the ring of Restoration comedy, Money owes much of its drive to contemporary American fiction. Unlike most British novelists, Amis projects a large and raucous vision. He seems to have learned his heightened personal voice from Saul Bellow, the humorous uses...
Pakistan's national elections last week were in effect a tug-of-war between President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who seized power in 1977, and the alliance of eleven opposition parties known as the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Zia exhorted his countrymen to vote, thereby demonstrating their support...
When the eleven-party opposition alliance, which calls itself the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, rejected Zia's invitation to participate in the elections, the President was furious. Said he: "Their decision has closed the doors on any dialogue. I will not talk to them while they continue to...
Thus, with a ruffle of pennants and a flourish of rhetoric, the German Democratic Republic last week celebrated the restoration of the Semper Opera House, 40 years to the day after one of Germany's most gracious cities was destroyed in a blazing rain of fire bombs. Despite the propaganda...
Postwar restoration began decades ago, but the major work did not get under way until 1977, when the new cornerstone was laid. The East German artisans were not quite starting from the ground up. After the bombardment by British and American warplanes, the building's shell was left standing, and...