Word: reconstructive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curious Spectacle. He attacked and denounced as he wished-rebelling against Alfonso's tottering monarchy ("Spaniards, your state is no more-reconstruct it") and denouncing the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ("this curious spectacle"). Finally, he founded a political party made up of intellectuals-the League for the Service of the Republic, which sent him to the 1931 Constituent Cortes. There, in his elegant Castilian, he helped write the constitution of the Spanish Republic: "The magnificent and momentous time has come," he cried, "when fate imposes upon Spaniards the duty of acting grandly...
...show Asia that it could remake a Japanese territory into an independent, democratic nation. The comparative simplicity of the task undertaken by the American Military Government has permitted careful evaluation of the progress at each stop of the occupation. Briefly, General Hodge's assignment was; to eliminate Japanese control, reconstruct the economy, set up a democratic government, and get out. Unfortunately, the peoples of Asia now behold a complete failure to achieve these goals...
...book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of psychology at Bard College, N.Y., tackles the problem with a "psychological" approach. There is plenty of scattered information about Easter Island, says Dr. Wolff. Why not fit the pieces together and use psychological insight to reconstruct the island's ancient culture? Then the mystery of the statues might be solved...
...There is hardly any phase of the artist's life without its painted record of his likeness. This makes it possible for us to reconstruct the complete history of his outward appearance as well as the development of his personality," Professor Rosenberg has noted...
...Nazarovs is an attempt to reconstruct, in fictional form, the agony of the Russian people between 1892 and 1942. Mrs. Fischer obviously has a warm heart, an observant eye and an intelligent mind. But fiction is an art which demands more: the rare light of imagination and the difficult tools of prose...