Word: preservationism
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Endowment spending, Faust wrote, had to be examined “through a careful balancing of the needs of the current generation of students against the preservation of sufficient resources for generations to come.”
But Mohammed didn’t exhibit the same urgency to just get the hell home. While we sat waiting for the police chief to come tell us why we had been re-arrested after having already been set free by the prosecutor, Mohammed deliberately put himself at risk again...
Many Americans hold that certain forms of human commodification, such as organ sales, should be illegal on the grounds that they violate human dignity. Even if we accept this idea of dignity—which is somehow desecrated by the sale but not the donation of kidneys, and which applies...
Sparing you my construction-worker's appraisal of each actress' current state of preservation or decay, I'll just say that the wonder is Cattrall, who's managed to retain her erotic shine from her first film, the 1975 Rosebud, undiminished. The camera examines her face, tracks up her tanned...
But building on hallowed ground is a tricky matter. After Gerry entered the picture, a preservation group sprang up to resist any construction in the bowl that held the stage and most of the crowd. In the end, the main structures were located at or just beyond the upper rim...