Word: restorationism
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As dramatic as the clearing of the canal has been the restoration of the main cities that line it. Since the 1967 war, Port Said, Ismailia and Suez had been part of the Arab-Israeli battleground, and most residents had fled for safety to such cities as Cairo and Alexandria...
Some of the measures may be more effective in placating public opinion than in dealing with the I.R.A. The police have consistently opposed a ban on the I.R.A. because they say that driving the organization underground would merely complicate police operations. But no one now criticizes the ban, and Tory...
Congreve was the alchemist of Restoration comedy, refining grossness into gaiety. He gave bawdry rare class. His rakish characters pursue their seductions, cuckoldries and feverish fornications with the aristocratic aplomb of English gentlemen on a fox hunt. Their talk is nakedly lubricious, yet it shimmers with wit. The absolute lack...
Apparently the greatest accomplishment of the Restoration was the first England-grown pineapple, a feat absurdly celebrated by this book in a two page color illustration of the royal gardener presenting Charles II with the fruits of his endeavors.
John Wilmot was one of the most clever Court poets during the reign of Charles II, and in many ways he represents the very nature of the Restoration: he was lewd, selfish, disdainful and he had no sense whatsoever of right and wrong. In that era Hobbes made it fashionable...