Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Mr. Shaw, thinking is merely the fore-runner of action. Having concluded that Shakespeare was one of the world's two greatest dramatists. Mr. Shaw has set about the creation of a Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre, but without startling success. In Mr. Archibald Henderson's "Table Talk of G. B. S." he reports what progress has already been made. "After many years of struggle," says Mr. Shaw, "we have had but one subscription. The solitary sportsman who gave it was a Hamburg gentleman. When Germany recovers from the war, we may get another move on. Nil desperandum...
...Sargon, King of Assyria, in 772 B.C. The Kingdom of Judah came to an end when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian put down a Jewish uprisal, forbade the Jews to enter Jerusalem, ordered the great Dispersal which scattered the Jews throughout creation...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
...learns to speak his lines; not live them. Real beauty on the stage cannot exist without deep, silent appreciation in the audience, which reaches across the foot-lights to the players, helping them on. A rustling, noisy audience, whispering, coming in late, going out early, is a purely American creation and hardly one to boast of. In Europe the drama meets with greater refinement and intelligence. It is no wonder our best actors are imported...
...months, wholesale commodity prices have shown a general tendency to recede. In the basic industries, production is high and, while consumption is apparently good, a tendency to create heavy stocks and inventories is undoubtedly present. Easy money, by promising the wherewithal to carry these, is a factor facilitating the creation of a top-heavy business situation...