Word: restorationism
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Faced with intransigent natives at the U.N., the great hunter must have smelled blood, his rhetoric growing increasingly incendiary and his suspicion apparently growing that every word the delegate from say, Burundi, was speaking was dictated from Moscow. This has come to be his present stance, one which it would...
The legislators urged him to be more "presidential," to stop responding to each Reagan attack and take an "affirmative" and "statesmanlike" stance, emphasizing?as they felt he had failed to do so far?his best issues: peace, economic recovery and the restoration of integrity to the White House. They hinted...
What they had was a major discovery-the world's only group of mural sketches by Michelangelo Buonarroti, more than 50 large drawings, done in charcoal on the rough plaster of the walls and inadvertently protected by later whitewashing against age, flaking and the 1966 flood. After several months...
They might be called the keepers of the flame. A dozen in all, they are the dispossessed descendants of Europe's royal families-and they all have legitimate claims to thrones from Russia to Portugal. Theirs is not always an impossible dream-as witness the restoration of Juan Carlos...
THEY FLED FROM BABYLON, from an England corrupt and doomed, to the beneficent shores of the Promised Land, where they would found their "city upon a hill." Guilty about deserting the cause, the Puritans aboard the Arbella self-righteously sought their justification in the hopeless depravity of their English brethren...