Word: rebuilding
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...takes an individual of great inner conviction to risk a dropout like that. It also takes a pianist of extraordinary brilliance to come back afterward, on his own terms and at his own pace, to rebuild a major career. Pollini is such an individual and such a pianist. Becoming active again around 1967, he made a belated New York debut in 1968 that was well worth waiting for. By the early 1970s he was ready to resume recording, and a succession of superb discs has followed: the Chopin Etudes, the late Beethoven sonatas, last year's Grammy Award-winning...
Liang then entered into the decisive period of his career. Hired by Peking University to teach Indian studies, he entered the great debate over what could constitute the basis for the renaissance of China. He came most of the way down on the side of traditionalists who sought to rebuild China on some kind of Confucian mold. He rejected both of his youthful affectations: Westernization and Buddhism. The rest of Liang's career was spent attempting to build a state based on a Confucian value system that would prescribe a "Chinese" core for any institutional setup. As part...
...college tennis is a funny sport. Since the level of play is virtually the same as many freshmen players will have faced in regular amateur competition, the transition is often not difficult. Thus, while most Harvard teams rebuild year after year, Fish managed the feat in a few months...
...YEARS, the Afro-American Studies Department has lived from one crisis to the next, always lacking the stability and the faculty necessary to establish itself. After years of neglect, the Faculty has finally taken steps to rebuild the department. Recently, Dean Rosovsky, after an extensive search by an ad hoc committee, offered tenure in the department to three scholars in an attempt to establish a core of committed faculty who will try to set the department on a steady course...
...country has an elected government with a strong mandate. Binaisa said last week that national elections, originally scheduled for June 1981, might be held by November of this year. Until then, Uganda is likely to stumble from crisis to crisis. Says one Westerner in Kampala: "You don't rebuild a national sense of unity after eight years of rule by Idi Amin. This could be a beautiful country once people learn to trust each other again. Until then, all you can do is weep for Uganda...