Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the most exciting of the recent discoveries have come from East Africa and Richard Leakey, In 1972, Bernard Ngeneo, a Kenyan member of Leakey's fossil-hunting team, spotted a few scraps of bone exposed by erosion in sandy sediments in a steep gully near Lake Turkana's eastern...
Reconstruction Period
Today Fast lives in a peaceful section of Beverly Hills, California, above the smog of Los Angeles, in a home heated and powered by 12 solar panels. At 63 he has written more than 50 books, including science fiction works, "Zen stories," and thrillers--the last under the pseudonym of...
Song of Solomon is an exuberant expansion of her themes and literary techniques. Using legend and the tradition of black oral history, she traces a family from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement-from slavery in the South, to farming in Pennsylvania, to middle-class respectability in a Midwestern town...
The surprising vote was in sharp contrast to the placid and generally lackluster campaign that preceded it. Shortly before election day, according to one survey, 43% of the eligible voters felt that it made little difference which party won. Obviously, though, they cared more than the pollsters and politicians suspected...