Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masses. Not that it has become any easier to know what is going on in side China. In the absence of published statistics, Peking watchers are even worse off than Kremlin watchers; they are reduced to gleaning shipping records from the world's docks to reconstruct Chinese production figures, and count the number of lines someone receives in a newspaper account to determine his standing in the community. While most Western newsmen, with the exception of Americans, are admitted to the Chi nese mainland, they are so few and so restricted that journalism's old friend of half...
...most popularizations, it is primarily a piece of thorough, balanced scholarship. In writing it Professor Labaree compiled material from thousands of original sources--public records, company ledgers, state documents, newspapers, broadsides, private letters and diaries. Such abundant documentation could easily swell into pedantry: here, however, it serves to reconstruct the subtlety and complexity of issues as contemporaries saw them, a fascinating exercise in painstaking historicism...
Alabama Young Democrats and certain Taft Republicans are opposed to the direction of the political campaign, he said. Young Democrats are working now "under a cover of darkness," Flowers said, to reconstruct the Democratic Party after its almost certain defeat in November...
...immediately comes upon the wreckage of World War II. A few blocks across from Checkpoint Charlie is Akademieplatz, a mute monument to the East Berlin failure to reconstruct. Grass is pushing its way through the paving of a square, surrounded by once majestic marble Academy buildings with Corinthian columns. Grotesquely shattered marble figures now lie around the base of the buildings, crumbled columns are scattered on the ground, and the burned and sagging roof has rotted to reveal only its steel skeleton and the wreckage inside...
...impossible for us to reconstruct completely Professor Friedman's remarks on all the various subjects he breached while he was here, and we recognize this was perhaps the problem your reporter faced. It remains that all of us, liberal and conservative, who talked with Professor Friedman at Lowell House on Sunday and at 2 Divinity Avenue on Monday found his remarks far more profound and thoughtful than the article on Tuesday suggested. William E. Dunham '65 William C. Wooldridge '66 Editors, The Harvard Conservative Carl F. Moxcy '56 President, H-R Conservative Club