Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"You cannot have a reconstruction on the purely missionary level--digging wells and producing more fertile chickens," Fairbank said. Policy makers must also learn to manipulate the village power system.
While the Virginia tax is only $1.50 a year, residents who have not been voting must pay for three years-a total of $5.01 with penalties and interest. Attorney Robert L. Segar in a companion suit pointed out that the tax lay most heavily on Virginia Negroes, 54% of whom...
Good words and brave. It remained to be seen whether the political reconstruction of a nation as large and complicated as Nigeria could be achieved by a soldier who, for all his good intentions, had never before grappled with problems of state.
Diminutive Presence. Now 41, Capote has executed an "esthetic experiment." He calls it a "new literary form" -a "nonfiction novel." It is an unfortunate term, as contradictory as it is pretentious. Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, a reconstruction in novel form of the Allied Normandy landings, Lillian Ross...
Reconstruction in the hall has cost the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, which sponsors all projects at the CEA, about $1.3 million, Cummings said.