Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics" and, just in case any feel downhearted, the "emotional aspects of life" are to be "heightened with public songs stressing antiCommunism, independence, brotherhood and reconstruction...
...always true that the most perniciously typical aspect of the modern era consists in the absurd attempt to reconstruct a solid and fruitful temporal order prescinding from God . . . and, if possible, extinguishing man's sighing...
...late '30's of the fifth century B.C., Pericles told the Athenians that their empire was a tyranny." With this as his background, Russell Meiggs, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, proceeded last night to reconstruct Athenian history from 465-450 B.C. in the first part of this year's Jackson Lectures on "The Crisis of Athenian Imperialism...
...Bruner sees it, mere "mastery of facts and techniques" in education is a dead end. The child learns only part of the story, and unconnected facts have "a pitiably short half-life in memory." Indeed, the only facts worth knowing are those that reconstruct details when needed, e.g., basic scientific formulas. So too, the child must be given the kind of facts that lure him onward. It is one thing to show him a black dot on the map called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give...
...recent books from both sides of the Channel about the greatest battle of the age of sail (Trafalgar, by Oliver Warner; Trafalgar, by Rene Maine), Dudley Pope, 34, British yachtsman, newsman, and merchant mariner, has written the best. In it he tries, and for the most part successfully, to reconstruct the historic engagement as it was seen by both officers and men, not only of the British Navy but of the Combined Fleets of France and Spain...