Word: restorationism
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The Quake. It was no accident that this repressive law was modified in the year of the great Tokyo earthquake. A current Japanese joke says it took an earthquake to start the emancipation of women, and the atom bomb to set it going again. The 1923 temblor destroyed 60% of...
One form of light makes Author Eliot bridle, the "cruel" light of "scientific restoration": "Major paintings are handed over to men in white smocks clutching scalpels and chemical swabs ... If there be fifty nailheads in a painted cask, they want to see all fifty. So they strip away . . . Hardly a...
Of all Franco's opponents, only the Socialists command anything approaching mass support, and the Socialists are rent by a division between a new generation of Socialists and their leaders in Toulouse, who fought the Spanish Civil War, but are now out of touch. Except for the Communists, almost...
But even on its own terms of historical analysis, the Department fails, the non-concentrator in its accomodations of the concentrator. Its policy of subdividing periods appears calculated to drives off the non-concentrators; these extremely limited courses are dry and historically incomplete because of a seemingly willful exclusion of...
It failed to be stirring largely because Laurence Harvey as Henry, given some of Shakespeare's best writing for trumpet, could not make the climaxes. (When asked if Harvey had a cold, someone who ought to know said, "No, he's a film actor.") And his clipped, fastidious diction sounds...