Word: reconstruct
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...decades, architectural historians and nostalgic members of the Harvard community have criticized the University for its refusal to reconstruct the tower...
Writing in a loose chronology beginning with the birth of the author and ending in the present, Gray Sexton uses memory, dreams and her mother's poetry to broadly reconstruct a history of milestones and events in the two women's lives. Presented in tandem, their histories illustrate a destructive cycle of abandonment and dependence, a pattern which plagued the Sexton family and, perhaps to a lesser extent, plagues the American family today...
Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive. But when members of TIME's Chicago bureau fanned out in the city last week to reconstruct the short, shocking life of Robert Sandifer, known as Yummy, their journalistic reserve was sorely tested. In an intense three-day period of reporting, the Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull and reporter Julie Grace trekked through Robert's former neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, talking to friends -- and more often enemies -- about the slain 11-year-old. They searched out family members, spending time...
...previously imagined that the Moche had amassed such riches or produced so powerful a ruling elite. Donnan compares interpreting the Moche with no information about Sipan's Senor to "trying to reconstruct ancient Egypt without knowing anything of the existence of the pharaohs." Our understanding of Moche social organization, religion, art and technology is now divided, says Alva, into periods he calls "before Sipan and after Sipan...
Consequently, no attempt to reconstruct approaches to aging will change this ineluctable fact. Betty Friedan tries valiantly in her book, The Fountain of Age, to reformulate society's attitude towards aging. Because aging, with its attendant existential dilemmas marks the beginning of the end, these attempts will always be futile. We do not want to go quietly the night...