Word: reconstructional
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...reenacting the American acne, Seides has not overlooked the slang and of the period. His objective has been to reconstruct the past as we lived...
...unnecessary expansion of industrial plants, the waste of natural resources, the exploitation of consumers of natural monopolies, the accumulation of stagnant surpluses, child labor and the ruthless exploitation of all labor . . . these were consumed in the fires that they themselves kindled: we must make sure that as we reconstruct our life there be no soil in which such weeds can grow again...
...Even so, such tags provide interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct a picture of Professor "Waltz," smoking an unusual under-slung pipe and wearing a hat as he lectures on the Sesenheim idyll. And perhaps correctly they will surmise that the student was bored and undutiful, since he filled the cover with diagrams of football plays...
Historians rarely reconstruct a world convincingly: their models may be correct to the last detail but the clockwork that runs them is modern. Really moving pictures of the past are made not by scholarship but by imagination. Authoress Waddell has resurrected the famed love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval...
Grimly did many a conservative banker listen to this advice, remembering the last time, in 1929, when a "new era" was preached, remembering defunct bankers who lent not wisely but too well to "reconstruct" their customers...