Word: restorationism
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"Our sex is not much valued in our age," Cary Verney, a lady of the Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors...
While examining the period for her earlier books, Cromwell: The Lord Protector and Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration, Lady Antonia must have amassed an exhaustive file under some such heading as "17th century women: the great exceptions." She sets it all out stylishly here in a sprawling documentary...
Since then the authorities have made an ostentatious show of openness and reason, typified by Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski's televised debate last week with two former Solidarity members. Most viewers, however, quickly recognized the pair as apostates who had publicly recanted their allegiance to the union during the...
That change of attitude is evident at all of the 36 U.S. military communities scattered across West Germany, where 252,530 men and women in uniform make up the largest concentration of U.S. armed forces overseas. Like U.S. military personnel everywhere, they show the beneficial effects of four years of...
The problem of The Problem lies in these twinkling asides. They not only provide the book's entertainment, they constitute its substance. The restoration of Harvey's fortunes, his adoption of Clara, his new romance and the completion of the monograph are rushed onstage in the final scenes...