Word: restorationist
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...restoration at times resembles gardening, it draws inspiration from a very different philosophy. Gardeners seek to improve on nature and tame its excesses. Restorationists, however, strive to return to the landscape the very things people find hostile, including fires, floods and all the noisome critters that help keep each ecosystem in healthy kilter. "The restorationist is a servant of nature, not of his or her personal whims or tastes," reflects William Jordan III, of the four-year-old Society for Ecological Restoration in Madison, Wis. "A prairie, for instance, is not altogether a pleasant place to be. Some people would...
...before their eyes. This anxiety is the root of a "radical centrism" among Middle Americans--a revolutionary mood that makes Main Street susceptible to populistic appeals for "decency" and to promises of a mythical good old days restored. Ronald Reagan's skillful campaign rhetoric articulated and capitalized upon the "restorationist" sentiment...
Phillips maintains, however, that the Reagan coalition is inherently unstable. The Sun Belt salesmen, Bible-thumping moralists, Wall Street bankers, neo-conservatives, and disgruntled industrial workers who voted for Reagan in 1980 did so for radically different reasons. To each, Reagan symbolized a different restorationist vision. Because the Reagan romp mobilized so many diverse constituencies--but will fail to satisfy and of them--Phillips foresees its eventual splintering, and a subsequent "dealignment" of American politics and political parties. His only hope for a way out of such a deadlock is for reforms in the political system itself. He believes that...
While I use that word reactionary in a nonpejorative sense, I realize that it may irritate supporters of Senator Goldwater; and I would therefore suggest respectfully that he henceforth be known as a "restorationist." In any case, to cede him all rights to the proud citadel of conservatism is to banish Dwight...
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