Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States, and the restoration of trade with Japan upon a basis mutually beneficial in the case of each of these countries. . . . It is an overwhelming condemnation of the policies of economic nationalism. . . . The election is an overwhelming verdict against amalgamation of the railways of Canada, and the creation of other monopolies, whether related to the agencies of transportation and communication, production, industry or banking...
...quotation, the Fine Arts authorities realize this final purpose. There are excellent courses in the appreciation of Art, in the History of Art, in the Philosophy of Art, and in the Technical Methods of Art. What is lacking are courses in Collection and methods to encourage personal artistic Creation, whether by future amateurs, or by future professionals. But even in the field of general Cultural Appreciation, where there is some consciousness of the necessity of making courses attractive to non-specialists, the Department is doing only one half, or less, of what it should and could...
Long before the danger of war focused the world's attention on Ethiopia, that wild country had served as a magnet for such dissimilar imaginations as those of Evelyn Waugh (Black Mischief) and the late L. M. Nesbitt (HellHole of Creation). While both volumes made the country and its people out in strange, terrifying terms, they emerge as even more formidable in the account of Marcel Griaule, whose description of a French scientific expedition that traveled from the Nile to Addis Ababa has the quality of a nightmare sustained beyond human endurance...
...This is a business of creation and imagination. The best company in this industry is Loew's Inc.-because some years ago they bought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the services of Louis Mayer, Irving Thalberg and J. R. Rubin. Without those three men I wouldn't give for the stock. . . . We pay stars $8,000 or $9,000 weekly and make money out of them. Zanuck, who directs these stars and creates stars, is worth $5,000 a week. ... It may be more money than bank presidents are paid, but bank presidents can't make moving pictures...
...Victorians, Authors Sitwell and Barton discover that George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance. He was one of the few English kings who was also a patron of the arts. Gay and entertaining, with considerable taste in painting and architecture, he was principally responsible for the creation of Brighton as a superb pleasure resort...