Word: restorationism
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MARRIED. Irene Marcos, 22, younger daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand and First Lady Imelda Marcos; and Gregorio Araneta III, 35, land developer and scion of one of the country's most prominent families; both for the first time; in Sarrat, the Philippines. Bitterly disappointed by the 1981 U.S. marriage...
The diarist was not some ignominious hypocrite; he was a high-placed hypocrite. Pepys, a Secretary of the Royal Navy, regularly took bribes, praising God for his increasing riches. On one occasion, when he received an envelope that felt full of money, he artfully opened and emptied it without actually...
The Helsinki accords of 1975, long sought by the USSR, raised international legal barriers to the reunification of Germany and to the restoration of the former German territories ceded to Czechoslovakia. Poland and the USSR. The Soviet search for an enduring solution to the Germany question is also evident in...
Some kind of turbulence had seemed imminent ever since French students fathomed the implications of an almost impenetrable, 68-article scheme for restructuring French education, proposed last September by Education Minister Alain Savary. The plan threatens, for example, to curtail subjects like art restoration and comparative Literature that are not...
But while he was assisting the American war effort, he also helped oversee the Japanese internment, he complied with American policy to refuse to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp and he argued against easing immigration quotas for Jews. When overseeing the restoration of West Germany, he commuted the sentences of...