Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among more enlightened critics of Siamese affairs it was recalled that King Rama has instituted numerous Western reforms (commercial, political, legal, hygienic) throughout Siam. His most picturesque innovation was perhaps the creation of a fantastic offshoot of the Boy Scout movement. For a time almost every Siamese noble was a "Chief Scout," wore a resplendent uniform not elsewhere associated with the movement, and supported a retinue of "Boy Scout guards...
...existence you must escape reality and to escape reality you must build up a new reality in its place. Unlike the Buddhist who finds this new reality in Nirvana or the assimilation of the will we must achieve it by a transformation of the will, by a new creation. Evreinov carries over the factional strife between the realistic and expressionistic theatre in Russia to the field of life itself. If all the world is a stage it is at best a realistic stage and all realism is bad. The Manager of the Universe, whoever he may be, is managing...
Underlying the arguments of the proponents of our "joining" the so-called world court runs the major assumption that the court would furnish a substitute for war, at least in part; that nations desire a court of this kind for the settlement of their disputes, and that the creation of the new court invites the nations to submit their differences for peaceful adjudication...
...joining" the court sustainable, namely, that it constitutes as Mr. Hoover intimated and President Harding denied, a first step toward the League of Nations? If it does involve such a possibility at least there is here a genuine issue as to policy. Although the court is the direct creation of the league and depends upon the league budget for its support, it may be that it is so far dissociated from its organization that adhering to the protocol creating the court, as the administration spokesmen have asserted, will involve no other commitments to the league. Yet the fact that...
...needed. And I took his word for what was more, most and very most important and tried to keep from sinking into a pleasant apathy. And at about quarter after eleven I new something and that was that I was tired. But today I can tell the whole of creation about six of its social errors. Perhaps that's what is wanted. I hope so. One never does know exactly what the head of a course calls education. And then these graduates raise the standards as well as a lot of fool questions. Well, I've done my best anyway...