Word: restorationism
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I propose that foreign governments and individuals withhold all further aid to Italy for conservation and restoration projects until there is a drastic and documented change in Italian laws and attitudes. As an alternative, I suggest that all major art works should be placed under the direct supervision of the...
Sir / You say, "But there is a sensible, minimum American goal in Viet Nam that can yet be achieved: restoration of peace without imposing any Communist government in South Viet Nam." Good heavens, this is what the whole war is about! This is the maximum goal, not the minimum.
In a sense, his motives no longer matter. The damage is done, and, according to the Vatican's optimistic experts, it can be repaired. No tourist looking at the Pieta in the future-through a prophylactic wall of reinforced glass -will be able to see the traces of restoration...
At times the responsibilities of caring for the cities and their art get lost in a farcical tangle of bureaucratic procedure. A $400 million emergency fund for the restoration of Venice, raised abroad by Minister of Public Works Mario Ferrari Aggradi, lies unused while dozens of local and national agencies...
It will inevitably be difficult for Americans to accept the proposition that so many of their young men died or were maimed without achieving the full goals for which three U.S. Presidents sent them to Viet Nam. But there is a sensible, minimum American goal in Viet Nam that can...