Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seward and his colleagues at the Center for Astrophysics use the data of ancient supernovae and simultaneously employ the latest astronomical technology to reconstruct the history of stars that exploded hundreds of years...
Altering facts to achieve a dramatic narrative is a legacy of the New Journalism, which was popularized in magazines and books in the 1960s and '70s and has been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties rather than participants, and even claim to know what people were thinking. Clay Felker, when he was running New York magazine, edited out Gail Sheehy's explanation in an article that a prostitute, Red-pants, was a composite because, he says, "I thought it slowed the story down...
...touched only peripheral, almost tangential concerns of Harvard as a university. Today they seem virtually irrelevant. ROTC was not crucial to the war effort and most of us realized that; Officer Candidate School could easily have trained all the officers the Army needed. And frankly, I can no longer reconstruct the reasoning for allowing 182 run-down flats to stand in the way of a modern hospital. If the tenants are offered decent alternative housing, why not build the hospital...
...makes Tomas follow Tereza back into Czechoslovakia simply so that Tomas can make sure that their love is not an accident, that it is not light. Tomas has been impressed prior to this by the series of coincidences which first caused him to meet Tereza, he was able to reconstruct six. Thus his decision to follow her back, though to anyone else an act of utmost folly, to him makes sense he thinks that this single act will overcome the lightness of his life...
...veil of secrecy is drawn so tight that not only is it impossible to reconstruct the events of the past, but even to reveal the existence of a debate about the meaning of those events....One does not expect...university presidents to adapt Orwell's memory hole" to the governance of universities...