Word: restorationism
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Built over a period of eight centuries, the Louvre is an imposing palace but, notwithstanding its fabulous art collection, an impossible museum. The French call it un théâtre sans coulisses, a theater without a backstage. Some 90% of its space is crammed with exhibits of paintings and...
An actor of integrity, he has found a style that permits him to withdraw a certain distance from his material without entirely dissociating himself from it. And there are moments when he actually persuades you that a Restoration comedy might get going around here any minute now, though the air...
Renovations at the Quad will certainly include the same kind of restoration for other Houses, but may also include major remodeling and an addition to North House, according to Robert H. Scott, vice president for administration.
Most of the libraries have small staffs, usually with at least one member who specializes in book binding and restoration.
As an exiled Nigerian lawyer put it, "Far better to have a shabby democracy in which people have some say in the running of things than a shabby military regime in which they have none." The liberal Rand Daily Mail of Johannesburg feared that the coup would bring "foolish and...