Word: restorationism
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More frequent paper assignments and more frequent contact with the heretofore anonymous men who read them would encourage a more active sense of student engagement in work as it goes along. Academic suicide, academic abandon, all of the varieties of student alienation from course work can be alleviated by greater...
It was not until 1947 that a Spanish art dealer happened to bring up the subject of the apse again. Rorimer went to the site and decided that the apse was something that The Cloisters had to have. With the help of the U.S. embassy, he began negotiations. After ten...
Last week Doug Dillon, the Harvard-accented scion of Cháteau Haut-Brion,* gave a typical performance before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. At issue was the restoration of a $16.9 million appropriation to hire 2,500 additional tax collectors that the House had cut from Treasury's budget...
Poet Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle) has taken the more demanding dare. For one thing, as he himself notes, Racine's flawless "syllabic Alexandrines do not and cannot exist in English."* Lowell relies on loose-rhythmed couplets with idiomatic echoes of the English Restoration. Another hazard is that...
For both sides, only breaking the spiral of antagonism could avert catastrophe. A method already suggested would entail the scheduled restoration of trade relations conditional upon the Cuban leader's promise not to enter into any aggressive alliance or agreement against the U.S. This is a condition which Castro has...