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...Orinda led the uninteresting life of wife of a country gentleman of that period and died before she had even reached her prime. Of the small details of her life, which would be necessary to create an attractive biography there remain almost none. Dr. Souers has been forced to reconstruct a large part of her life from her letters and sporadic poems...
...academic culture of the earlier twentieth century. Skyscrapers narrate only a part of the story; in a generation they must give way to others, and in their mortality lies their smallness. The Yale library will not give away, and historians, philosophers, and sight-seers in five hundred years will reconstruct the America of our day form its venerable stones...
...Escape. After a week of excited, contradictory news despatches, it was possible to reconstruct in detail the departure of the Royal family from Madrid, an event to rank with Louis XVI's flight to Varennes, Napoleon's departure for Elba...
...have started from zero, to build up a satisfactory social system by centralized initiative. We have no right to prejudice them. . . . [But] while the Russians may be building a very modern house on very modern foundations, they are building their house on a vacant lot; we have to reconstruct our old house while we continue to live...
...talk will be given on the second floor of the museum, and it will use the paintings in the permanent exhibition there as examples of restoration. There are two distinct methods of restoring a picture, one is by merely covering the blank spaces with flat color, without attempting to reconstruct the detail, and the other is by trying to paint the picture as it was in the original, before mutilation. Examples of both types will be shown and explained in the talk...