Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monsieur le Gorille. Malraux visited the retired President and his wife Yvonne for a little more than six hours at their home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises on Dec. 11, 1969. He did not record the conversation or take notes, but later felt compelled to reconstruct their conversation. Writes Malraux in his preface: "With surprise I found out that we know of no dialogue between a great historical figure and a great artist-painter, writer, musician. We have no better knowledge of Julius II's dialogues with Michelangelo than of their loud quarreling. Nor of those between Alexander...
...roasting the proudly remote metaphysics of Emerson's essay Self-Reliance, after deploring the enchanted navel gazing of Whitman's Song of Myself, Professor Anderson confronts James' The Golden Bowl. The Jacobin crime, as he draws it up, was to take European culture, abstract it, then reconstruct the abstraction as a kind of kingdom in the novelist's mind, with Mad Henry as its tyrant...
Ruminating about the difficulties of transposing life into art, Updike wrote, "From the dew of the few flakes that melt on our faces we cannot reconstruct the snowstorm." He is wrong, really, for this artless book obliquely manages to re-create the emotional blizzard that made him into an artist...
...Cambodia's FANK (for Forces Armées Nationales Khmères) as possible. Only one-fourth of the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia are toying with the capital's supply routes; the rest are trying to carve out staging areas in northeast Cambodia and reconstruct supply routes into South Viet Nam's III and IV Corps areas...
...acids. Analysis showed HGH to be a far more complex molecule, a chain of 188 amino acids with two loops, one containing six subunits, the other 93. To reproduce the molecule, Li and his associates had first to determine the order of the acids in the chain and then reconstruct them from available ingredients. Finally they had to fold the chain and its loops into the precise size and three-dimensional shape of the natural hormone. Li's work was made even more difficult by the scarcity of natural HGH. All of the HGH presently available for either treatment...