Word: restorationism
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He looked like a toad, as he said of himself. His sexual life was more intricate than the plot of a Restoration comedy; and he once remarked, with a humor rare in his profession, that sex preoccupied him far more than philosophy. He did not write like a philosopher either...
After 1973 the stagnation of the capital-labor ratio which slows down the changes in methods of production is the largest single cause of the productivity slowdown. If the capital-labor ratio can be made to improve once more, a partial restoration of our traditional productivity performance will be assured...
But for a while he seemed to have lost his touch. His early '70s work with the Beatles, especially Lennon, was big-spirited and lavish, but brought him an unaccustomed critical drubbing. His marriage to Ronnie, lead singer of the Ronettes, broke up in 1973. He was in at...
Fraser doesn't explain this amazing reversal of public opinion. "The tide of revolution had run out," she says, feebly. That doesn't explain much. She's bored us with details of unsuccessful intrigues for a hundred pages; giving us at least a chapter on this final, successful intrigue would...
Statia has two of the pleasantest inns on the islands, the Moushay Bay Publick House and the Old Gin House, facing on Gallows Bay. They are in fact a single entity, across the road from each other, with guests flowing to and fro, and a total of 23 rooms. Four...