Word: restorationism
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Nationalize Only Water. A barrage of left-wing demands for restoration of food subsidies, cuts in purchase taxes and a campaign for unrestricted wage rises bounced off the walls. Out of the din came the roar of bulky T.U.C. Vice Chairman Arthur Deakin. "What you're demanding, brothers," he...
Rhymester David McCord is fascinated by what happened to the positive form of such common words as inept, inert, disheveled, uncouth and unkempt. For years, McCord, who is secretary of the Alumni Fund of Harvard University and a well-known writer of light verse, has waged a happy campaign for...
With less than two weeks to go, 65 different parties are promising the voters everything from a Hohenzollern restoration to a holy war against Russia. Fifteen million posters and 60 million leaflets extol the panaceas of Nazis and Nihilists, Regionalists and Royalists, Capitalists and Socialists. Catholics and Communists. It did...
Restoration. Firm in this faith, Roman Catholic Adenauer has led his conquered nation, which had been both monster and 'genius, insane destroyer and industrious creator, back into the society of free nations. This is his greatest claim on the German electorate.
Atkinson was not urging a return to the primitive conditions of the Globe Theater ("It would be sentimental buncombe not to use the advantages that have accrued to us"). But he insists that "it is the essence of Shakespeare that today fascinates audiences, who, for the first time, are getting...