Word: reconstructionalism
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...pretty easy to reconstruct what happened. After being wined and dined by the Israeli intellectual and academic elite (who were well aware of how important a good word from Sontag would do in stopping the drain of support for Israel on the American left), she seems to have classified Israelis into two groups, the hawks (here represented by Harkavi) and the doves (much more favorably represented by Kenan), a division which may make sense in an American context, but not in an Israeli one. By including both in her film, she could honestly say that, despite her disagreements with...
...disclosures made as a result of Judge John Sirica's pressure on the burglars. By these means the reporters began to reconstruct, artifact by artifact, bone by bone, the mysterious subculture known as Watergate...
...South Vietnamese admit losing more than 17,000 men during this period. Despite the intensity of recent fighting-a last-minute Communist flurry before" the monsoons set in-few in Saigon expect a major Communist offensive. Through interrogation of defectors, South Vietnamese intelligence experts have been able to reconstruct a major document based upon a North Vietnamese strategy directive. The document is Central Office for South Viet Nam (COSVN) Resolution 12, designed to inform cadres of party goals and methods...
...himself is becoming, in fact, his most famous and only predictable trait. The writer who went from Portnoy's Complaint to political satire (Our Gang), and thence to Kafkaesque fantasy (The Breast) is now so impatient that he cannot even wait to complete this book before trying to reconstruct himself. In My Life as a Man, he switches persona in mid-volume. The result is superb as a performance and uneven as a book (or rather, two books). It leads, finally, to some questions. Does a kind of bravura restlessness now not only characterize Roth but constitute the heart...
...continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service. A tall, rangy man who had to wear an eye patch because of a fishing accident in 1949, Douglas helped shape, and as ambassador helped carry out, the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Western Europe...