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...council postponed for a week a vote on the school committee's request for funding of the $10-million project to reconstruct the Kennedy and Roberts schools on the motion of Councilor Leonard J. Russell...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Council Questions School Renovations | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

WHAT IS THE FUNCTION of memory in ressurrecting the children we once were, the personalities we abandoned long ago? In A Model Childhood, Christina Wolf struggles with this question as she tries, in graceful, stirring prose, to reconstruct her youth in Nazi Germany. Writing after a brief trip back to her native town in 1971, Wolf succeeds in raising distrubing questions about the relationship of the past to the present, but the lofty, stream of consciousness style which so effectively creates the feeling of memory ultimately precludes any real clarity of vision. Although in a work such as this...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Marek, | Title: Through a Glass Darkly | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...next six weeks, Sullivan and new manager Ralph Houk--who still had Lynn, Fisk, and Rick Burleson penciled in his opening day lineup when he accepted the job--will have to reconstruct a team that has not shown flashes of a winning attitude since September '79. Carney Lansford, acquired in the Burleson trade, will help, but the muddle up the middle (Hoffman? Nichols? Miller?) caused a recent caller to a Boston talk show to remark that "every ground ball hit over second base will turn into a triple...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Ready or Not | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

...onto a bank of scientific instruments: two cameras, two spectrometers (for analyzing light) and a photometer (for measuring its intensity). All the information from the new space telescope will be converted to electronic signals and beamed to earth with the help of relay satellites. On the ground, computers will reconstruct the images and display them on high-resolution TV screens just as they did during the recent Saturn flyby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Eye High in the Sky | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...delivered the most impassioned speeches of his lengthy career in an effort to undermine the PQ's initiative. He said he would under no circumstances--Yes victory or otherwise--negotiate sovereignty-association. Himself a bilingual Montrealer and the only politician in Quebec with greater than Levesque, Trudeau pledged to reconstruct Canada's archaic, watery constitution. For his part, Levesque appealed to solidarity, and fostered engroupements, community-level organizations designed unity. The touchy and emotional issue split families right down the middle. As one middle-aged No voter said, "I don't discuss the situation over dinner with my children anymore...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: If at First You Don't Secede... | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

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