Word: conservationism
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The decision to clean the Sistine frescoes, made four years ago by the curatorial officers of the Vatican museums, headed by their director general, Carlo Pietrangeli, and their secretary-treasurer, Walter Persegati, is one of the most courageous ever made in the field of art conservation. The work has three...
THE PURPOSE of this book, though, isn't to throw any intellectual weight around. (In fact, Hart sometimes writes so poorly--a modern building on the traditional Dartmouth campus "makes about as much sense as acne on Princess Grace"--one wonders if he has any intellectual weight.) Instead, the real...
Historians will look back with a chuckle on this book as a prime example of the sort of pollyanna-ish thought that dominates conservatives in the 1980s. Prosperity, conservation, freedom seem to these people the three points of an inviolable triangle. Fortunately, American political life has not yet become so...
The quest for safety starts with plant construction. Whenever possible, chemical companies have tried to build factories away from population centers. Especially overseas, those factories often become magnets, attracting other business and housing. Says Jeffrey Leonard, senior associate at the Washington-based Conservation Foundation: "Many plants are located on the...
Still, some environmentalists remained ambivalent about Ruckelshaus. "He was a very talented apologist for the President's horrible policies," contends Marion Edey, executive director of the League of Conservation Voters. "But," she concedes, "when he wasn't busy defending bad policies, he was working hard to improve them...