Word: restorationism
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Expert opinion on the subject divides down the middle, with surprisingly few fence sitters of importance. The controversy is intense. Every time a masterpiece emerges from the laboratory looking strangely changed, someone objects. But the museums can do as they like, and most of them favor restoration that includes stringent...
Despite her jauntily presented and even half-parodied experiences, hers is a real portrait of a woman; and despite being often fashioned of cliches, hers-like that of Restoration-comedy worldlings-is an authentic attitude. But just as Restoration comedy can grow tiresome in constantly pursuing sex for pleasure. The...
Palm Beach's fabulous white marble Flagler Museum came back to life when some 425 very social guests attended the pinnacle event of Florida's winter season. The museum was once Whitehall Mansion, home of Oilman Henry Morrison Flagler, a Rockefeller partner who, before his death in 1913...
Children of Darkness is couched in Mr. Mayer's approximation of the elegant, cynical wit which the English Restoration famously bequeathed to the eighteenth century. It is set in an annex to the Newgate jail, where the villains of The Beggar's Opera sang like caged birds. Yet it obstreperously...
Part 1 described the foundation of Ivan's royal power and personal happiness, the destruction of both during his struggle with the boyars (nobles) who murdered his wife and drove him to abdication, and the restoration of his power by the will of the people. Part 2 tells how...