Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...categories of Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left to reconstruct a tower out of the cotton candy spinning out of Hong-Kong: a dribble of official publications, captured documents, refugees and personal accounts of travel in China...
...least seven centuries before the golden age of Greece or the Etruscans. Earlier neolithic sculpture is totemic in nature, but Corsican menhirs, Grosjean noted, are "realistic and naturalistic, not stylized like Egyptian statues, and not divinities." To account for them, Grosjean has had to reconstruct an obscure artistic period. His starting point was a mysterious Mediterranean "People of the Sea," who left dome-shaped temples on Corsica, Sardinia and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Identified as "Shardanes," they appear on an 1190 B.C. bas-relief in an Egyptian temple in Medinet Habu wearing horned helmets (the Corsican menhirs have helmets with...
...commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...visage, has been a swing away from his thought to a fresh classroom consciousness of Marx. In West Germany, where West Berlin's Neukölln factory quarters became so hostile to anti-Viet Nam demonstrators last winter that one was badly beaten, S.D.S. activists are trying to reconstruct workers with a missionary effort. Groups of students drop in on worker pubs, strike up conversations over checker matches, and gradually set up small groups that aim to determine their common anticapitalistic grievances. However, with only 50 groups (20 to 60 members each) now functioning, and considerable worker skepticism remaining...
...addition to the problems discussed above the committee may get into the traditional issues like the inequalities between the Houses and the role students ought to have in making House rules (parietals!). Mainly, however, the work of the new committee is an attempt to reconstruct House life to solve equally vital long-term problems...