Word: restorationism
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Most major playwrights leave an unmistakable identifying mark on their work. It may be smaller than theme or plot or character; often it is apt to be a recurring vignette, a typical moment. In Greek tragedy, that moment is the hero smiting his brow, discovering a new wrinkle in Fate...
Seven months after a bloodless military coup overthrew the regime of Premier Adnan Menderes, Turkey appears at last on its way to a restoration of constitutional government. Portly General Cemal Gursel is back in charge after being laid low for a month by a slight paralysis; an appointed Constituent Assembly...
Congenial Ticket? If the Republicans could dream, so could certain disgruntled Democrats who hope the South will rise again. In Montgomery, Ala., Lawyer R. Lea Harris ("just an interested citizen") called for a conference of Southern electors with Jack Kennedy to force Kennedy to agree to certain "requests" (e.g., restoration...
A cartoonist named Axel Rex emerges out of Margot's past, and his urbane chitchat somehow convinces Albinus that three is no crowd. Besides, Axel stills Albinus' qualms with a ploy at least as old as Restoration comedy: he confides to Albinus that he is really a homosexual...
In the final volume of his trilogy, de Gaulle describes the fruition of his year labor-the restoration of as a strong and independent power. But the very success of this endeavor signaled the end of , as "the exclusive regime of the parties reappeared."