Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing out his role as the last New Englander, Bronson went to Japan, and was killed in a highspeed train crash. Even more devastating, his works and life fall into the hands of a professor-critic-and intellectual mortician-named Muldoon. A pugnacious Boston Irishman, Muldoon does a reckless reconstruct job on Bronson's Yankee soul-a rambling self-parody of scholarship which forms the loose frame of the novel. Understand Bronson, and you will understand America-"our present and our future." This is mad Muldoon's thesis...
...forced to work in California as a screen writer, cranking out weekly scripts and treatments of novels for film. In December, 1940, the day after F. Scott Fitzgerald died, West, only 38, was killed in a traffic accident. Jay Martin's biography will do a great deal to reconstruct the importance of his loss...
Nixon was trying his best to reconstruct consensus, to show that if he was not embittered by the protest movement, neither was he cowed. He also attempted to display flexibility. He was not about to muzzle anyone, he said, but he counseled his subordinates that "when the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool." He defended the Cambodia decision anew, but he also added that the troops would be coming out faster than anticipated. While not withdrawing from his tactical rationale for the Cambodian venture, Nixon gave an impression that was very different from the belligerent patriotism with which...
...Canterbury insisted that "no one gave an order." That statement strains credibility. By Canterbury's own count, 16 or 17 men fired 35 rounds. They started at virtually the same moment and stopped at the same moment. Many civilian spectators at the scene and some officials seeking to reconstruct the event are convinced that an order was given. And someone made the initial mistake of ordering live ammunition distributed to all the men and permitting them to load their rifles-a procedure that is contrary to regular Army practice in civil disturbances. Once weapons are loaded, says one Pentagon...
...power. In his own way, Alinsky is trying to redress the balance of power within contemporary America. If the desire to preserve basic American principles makes one a conservative, then he indeed qualifies. His more boisterous exploits may have endeared him to Yippie Abbie Hoffman, but his efforts to reconstruct a viable society have won the respect of Nixon Aide Pat Moynihan. He surely offers proof-if any is needed-that significant change can be accomplished within the American system...