Word: reconstruct
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Instead, Lelyveld writes a great deal about the strange relationship between his mother, a woman with a doctorate in dramatic writing who felt trapped by her family’s needs, and father, a nationally renowned reform rabbi. Still more of his narrative attempts to reconstruct the life of a man named Ben Goldstein, a significant figure in his childhood. Goldstein is a complex character, so much so that he might merit a work all his own, but he really has no place taking up so much room in what is ostensibly Lelyveld’s story. He may loom...
...several community leaders question the need to reconstruct the intersection...
...Europe, corporations and individuals have stepped up to aid a stricken region where they have been working and playing for generations, and with which they feel a strong bond. They've pledged tens of millions of euros, millions of doses of drugs, and the people and equipment needed to reconstruct damaged infrastructure. On Dec. 30, Christopher Bland, chairman of the U.K. telecommunications group BT, began phoning top executives at Britain's 20 largest companies to urge them to donate to the relief effort, but he soon gave up because so many of those he called had already made large pledges...
...first indication that Smile was not to remain an asterisk in pop history came in 2003, when Wilson (now severed from the Beach Boys) announced his intent to reconstruct and play the album in concerts across Europe. The first of those, in London, attracted instant claims of “timelessness,” both for the concert and what was increasingly seen as a new ordering and orchestration of Smile itself...
...strike this equilibrium, Greenblatt says that he relied heavily on literary studies, his knowledge of cultural history and his own intuition to reconstruct the likely day-to-day events of Shakespeare’s life...