Word: reconstructionism
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Any intellectual reconstruction of Caribbean literature must account for the fact that the conditions which spawned a Kincaid or a Walcott no longer exist. Geographical and intellectual isolation are impossible.
If one hadn't seen her running around the court, contorting into improbable positions to hit impossible angles, flinging herself into the air to intercept balls streaking in at 100 m.p.h., exulting at every reassurance that her athleticism was intact -- after 36 years, more than 2,000 career matches and...
However, the women's rights crusade increasingly is enmeshed with divisive projects of social, moral and theological reconstruction. Many devout Christians, multitudes of women among them, cling ever more fervently to the old ways when all that is hallowed seems in danger of eroding. That perhaps explains why conservative churches...
But then, political establishments almost invariably prefer a fellow incumbent to an unknown quantity. At times, Clinton's proposed diplomatic initiatives -- reconstruction aid to Russia, for example -- made Bush seem flat-footed. At others, though, Clinton came across abroad as a naive son-of- Jimmy Carter, complete with Southern twang...
Colorado voters chose the first Native American senator in American history: Ben Nighthorse Campbell, currently a U.S. representative. And five Southern states elected their first Black representatives since reconstruction.