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...Sixth Republic may give better social opportunities to white-collar workers and professional people, thus encouraging them to get back into politics and "reconstruct the government...
...ancient Babylon are already hard at work with Dr. Tuckerman's tables. Eventually they may check the dates of such events as Nebuchadnezzar's deportation of the Jews or Cyrus' capture of Babylon-sometimes, perhaps, to the very hour, Babylon Standard Time. They hope to reconstruct a detailed history of the almost forgotten Babylonian civilization, out of which grew the culture of Greece and modern Europe...
...reconstruct this story of the war's long night, Historian Toland traveled almost 90,000 miles, interviewed 800 survivors, digested mountains of documents that ranged from official histories on both sides to the combatants' personal diaries (and married his Japanese interpreter). By smooth crosscutting from one battle arena to another and viewing events wherever possible through the eyes of the men and women who took part in them, he has turned out a panoramic history that is as suspenseful as a first-rate documentary-and often as moving as a novel...
...need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics" and, just in case any feel downhearted, the "emotional aspects of life" are to be "heightened with public songs stressing antiCommunism, independence, brotherhood and reconstruction...
...always true that the most perniciously typical aspect of the modern era consists in the absurd attempt to reconstruct a solid and fruitful temporal order prescinding from God . . . and, if possible, extinguishing man's sighing...