Word: restorationism
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Lèse-Majesté. Today's trend toward wholesale restoration of time-tarnished Victorian literary reputations may not wholly reverse this judgment of Swinburne the poet. But antiquarians in England are now beginning to rediscover Swinburne as a writer of prose. In the U.S., Critic Edmund Wilson became...
Love for Love, a comedy written by Mr. Congreve, is now being produced at the Loeb by Messrs. Vachon, Chapman, Soule and Warburg and by Mrs. Liepmann. They have no first names, or at least the program, a self-consciously cute tribute to Restoration taste, omits them. Unamused but undaunted...
It was a bitter blow for the organizers when the city council decided to pass the buck and put the issue to the voters. Restoration and preservation of the mansion, with the extra money it would cost and the need to find other space for city office work, would certainly...
In presenting the themes of his coming lectures, Schrade stressed Greek thought as "the spring of all that was to come" in the history of tragic art. Music and tragedy were one in Greek art; later civilizations annuled this marriage, allowing each to take its own course. But Schrade said...
While all this was going on, President Kennedy continued in deep consultation with his advisers, stayed mostly out of public view. At one point he did schedule a press conference-which would have been his first in seven weeks. Then he canceled it. Instead, he appeared on television for a...