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...midst of it, one of the archaeologists in charge suggested, almost as a joke, that it might be nice, while they were at it, to reconstruct the Stoa of Attalus in its entirety, as a kind of museum to house whatever relics might be found. The idea caught on like wildfire, and once again Mr. Rockefeller offered to match with one of his own every dollar raised to complete the project...
Correlating his information, Ford could reconstruct the history of Poverty Point. As early as 10,000 years ago, he says, a very primitive people lived in the region. They left few relics except crude stone weapons. Then, about 1000 B.C., people of superior culture must have come down from the north. They made beautiful flint spearheads, knew how to work copper...
...that Averell Harriman's record first showed the intensity of concentration that has never left him. He became a bridge addict. After a bridge session, Averell would return to his room and sit for hours doing postmortems. He learned to memorize the hands and plays, and then would reconstruct them. His daughter Kathleen (Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.), recalling his stories of this exercise in memory training, has said: "It's one of the best things he got out of Yale...
...Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper (the liberal El Sol) and the most widely quoted Spanish review (Revista de Occidente) of the day. He launched political manifestoes ("Spaniards, our nation does not exist. Reconstruct it. The monarchy must be destroyed"). And all the while, in the most exquisitely modulated Castilian prose of the 20th century, he wrote about Spain, art, bullfighting, modern poetry and the timeless problems of moral philosophy...
...What did this candlestick really look like originally?' I developed such a passion for cleaning art objects that museum people use to call me 'Mr. Sapolio.' Then I'd ask, 'How did it look in its original setting?' I'd try to reconstruct the setting in my mind. Now in a museum you can actually give some idea of the original setting - not much, but some. For instance, some doors at The Cloisters are real Gothic doors. The very act of passing through them helps one enter the medieval world. Then finally...