Word: reestablished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traditionally, classicists have spent the bulk of their time collating manuscripts and compiling commentaries they have labored valiantly to reestablish a buried literature written in tongues no longer spoken. The value of this enterprise is unquestioned, but it is, after all, a preliminary exercise. Once a text has been purified and explicated, then it should be read, as a work of art, not merely an antiquarian construct, or a repository of ancient ideas. Latin is no deader than any other language that is written down; all literature is unchanging, but it dies when it is only studied and not read...
...reaction of the British government to the November Revolution of 1917 which brought the Bolsheviks to control of central Russia. During that winter the British attempted to revitalize the Russian war effort. Following the treaty of Brest-Litovsk they resorted to direct military intervention in order to reestablish an Eastern Front which they thought absolutely necessary for victory. As Ullman points out, these attempts were based on an assumption and a hope...
...Credibility. In terms of cold war politics, the small cloud of sand from Nevada was meant to cast a long shadow. The U.S. hoped that the blast, along with a second underground shot that came the next day, and with the others that were soon to follow, would help reestablish what Pentagonese labels "credibility"-meaning Communist belief that the U.S. has the weapons to fight, and the will to use them if need be. Last week the U.S. and its Western allies further advanced credibility with more taut, determined words on the Berlin crisis...
...Another Soviet visitation last week, a 39-man Russian good-will delegation, spent 95 minutes with Brazil's President Jânio Quadros, went away with assurances that Brazil would reestablish diplomatic relations with Russia after a break of 14 years...
...real in a real world. This chap and others like are a "youth problem," says Goodman, and emphasis is on their "background conditions," which one can manipulate. Thus, "the aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to reestablish "belonging...