Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper (the liberal El Sol) and the most widely quoted Spanish review (Revista de Occidente) of the day. He launched political manifestoes ("Spaniards, our nation does not exist. Reconstruct it. The monarchy must be destroyed"). And all the while, in the most exquisitely modulated Castilian prose of the 20th century, he wrote about Spain, art, bullfighting, modern poetry and the timeless problems of moral philosophy...
...What did this candlestick really look like originally?' I developed such a passion for cleaning art objects that museum people use to call me 'Mr. Sapolio.' Then I'd ask, 'How did it look in its original setting?' I'd try to reconstruct the setting in my mind. Now in a museum you can actually give some idea of the original setting - not much, but some. For instance, some doors at The Cloisters are real Gothic doors. The very act of passing through them helps one enter the medieval world. Then finally...
...traditional way is to take $5,000,000, reconstruct downtown Bagdad in the outskirts of Las Vegas, hire three leading historians to supply the facts and six writers to grind them to a proper pulp, buy at least four big names for the marquee, get rolling with a colossal publicity campaign, and then hope that people will rush to see the picture before their friends tell them...
Christians Hold Together. What Adenauer does believe is the key to the strategy he has followed to reconstruct Germany and to promote the construction of Europe. He believes that...
Lavrenty Beria's fall, like H. Dumpty's, was a great event, and all the Russian experts in the West started trying to piece together facts, rumors and Communist propaganda lies in order to reconstruct their theories of what is going on in the Kremlin. Charles Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, probably knew as much about what had happened as any outsider could. But last week, when he flew home to brief the Big Three Foreign Ministers' Conference, it was apparent that even "Chip" Bohlen did not know much...