Word: restorationism
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The front walls of the small shop--called the Book Pedlar--are lined with inexpensive booklets and pamphlets. The titles are blunt: "Communism and the Negro Revolution" (44 pages, published by the "Patrick Henry Group"); "The Socialistic Views of Nelson Rockefeller" (published by the Independent American, "a national Conservative newspaper...
Tokyo, the world's largest and ugliest city, is at the same time its most dynamic. Founded in the 15th century by a poetically minded samurai named Do-kan Ota, it wore the name of Edo during its early, bucolic years. Then the populace found its major thrill in...
∙CUBA. The Democrats will "move actively" to "further isolate Castroism and speed the restoration of freedom and responsibility in Cuba." Republicans promised recognition of a Cuban government-in-exile, and assistance tor Cuban freedom fighters "in carrying on guerrilla warfare against the Communist regime."
Now the Feast. Then Paris was drab, hungry and humiliated, poisoned by haphazard action against collaborationists, corrupted by the black market, weakened by class hatreds and inflation. Now its buildings are resplendent as the result of cleaning and restoration; the Parisian feasts at the most majestic table in the world...
As soon as he was rid of the King, Cromwell set up an even more harshly authoritarian regime, which was duly overthrown in the royal Restoration of 1660 when Charles II ascended the throne. Miss Wedgewood, who has lucidly portrayed the era in two previous books, The King's...