Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American intelligence people now reconstruct the event, Soviet radar at first did erroneously identify the plane as an American RC-135 (a reconnaissance version of the Boeing 707). An RC-135 had been in the North Pacific earlier that night. Though the Soviets tracked KAL 007 with radar for more than two hours, it is now believed that their interceptors had trouble finding the airliner. Not until it was about to leave Soviet airspace did they finally bring it into sight, and then they had to make a quick decision. They shot...
...good or ill, may be traced to an individual choice. And even when the choice has overwhelmed the choosers, the solitary mind, like a bat in a cave, gropes about for its own directions. "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience." (Churchill on Chamberlain.) That can be no less true of our time than of others. What may have mattered...
...quest for self-knowledge. Anne visits all the places where Olivia lived, trying to reconstruct Olivia's life. Although confused, Anne is essentially straightforward; we understand her much more easily than the mysterious Olivia. Played by the beautiful Greta Scacchi, Olivia is torn between her love for and obligations to her English husband and an uncontrollable fascination with an Indian prince. Olivia's desire for the prince (Shaski Kapoor) enables her to ignore his devilish and corrupt ways, and see only his charm...
...give the University a glimpse of what television life was like. An army of 40 crew members, 500 extras, five camper vans, six trucks and a catering service appeared throughout the Yard and the Square (Harvard did not allow the network to film interiors so CBS was forced to reconstruct classrooms and dorm rooms at other schools). More than 50 Harvard students got to play pedestrians or crowd members, and several hundred more gawked from the sidelines...
...DECADE spanning World War II and its aftermath was one of this country's greatest glories and its greatest shames. Americans mobilized first to protect the free world, and then to reconstruct it. But U.S. leaders also actively waged oppression at home--interning thousands of Japanese-American families--and tacitly accepted it abroad--largely ignoring Nazi atrocities and pardoning some of the perpetrators afterwards...