Word: restorationism
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One French conferee, the eminent Albert Laprade, chief of restoration of the old buildings of Paris, brushed aside the arguments of both camps. He did not think the city was sinking fast enough for anyone to worry. "I think Venetians exaggerate all their problems because they like to have meetings...
Showing that the Congress has not entirely run amok this session, the Senate Appropriations Committee has stuck $792 million back on the year's allocations for foreign aid. Yet cheered as the Administration must be at such a restoration it must already know that the final version of the aid...
Since Wolsey's day the place has undergone several transformations, notably at the hands of Sir Christopher Wren a century and a half later. Wren remodeled it for his royal masters, William and Mary. But Wolsey's apartments are still there, and it is said that sometimes at...
Dandin, while not one of Moliere's crowning achievements like Doin Juan and Tartuffe, is still a masterpiece of its own kind. Betterton, the foremost English actor of the Restoration, thought is worth translating as a vehicle for himself; and Gounod was going to make an opera of it.
(8 of 10) intellectuals among the Liberals, the Christian Democrats and other nonmonarchist groups are convinced that restoration of the king is the only sensible solution. The throne has no mass appeal among Spaniards; few have kind memories of Spain's ineffectual Borbon dynasty or long for the return...