Word: restorationism
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Over the past decade the AST has deserted its titular playwright eight times, but in so doing it has never gone back beyond early Shaw. Now it has reached back to the Restoration comedy of manners, and decided to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Wycherley play's first performance...
There is little doubt that popular sentiment against Papadopoulos' regime has risen sharply in recent months. Amid charges of corruption in high places, junta favoritism to business interests, accelerating inflation and the decreasing value of the drachma (which is tied to the dollar), student unrest broke into the open...
Another $153 million has been set aside for restoration of the city's houses and monuments. Up to now, most preservation has been done by private organizations, many of them international. The British have refurbished the magnificent church of the Madonna dell'Orto; the French fixed up the...
On a higher level of speculation political philosopher Leo Strauss has laid the groundwork for this re-examination of current fashionable dogmas by re-examining, in the most meticulous and scholarly fashion, the entire tradition of modern philosophy that started with Bacon and Hobbes. Strauss's work has encouraged the...
For the Jews of the world, the founding of Israel-those steeped in biblical faith prefer to speak of its "restoration"-was something of a miracle. So, in a way, is the fact that a nation of 3,000,000 people, surrounded by implacably inimical Arab states whose populations outnumber...