Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to explain. He recalls that he became "socially conscious" at 19, when he went from deeply socialistic New Zealand to deeply laborite Australia. But for all his savage conviction, he is still a sly humorist. The words he puts in the mouth of his most famous cartoon creation, globular, mustached Colonel Blimp, archtype of the Tory diehard, are an acid parody of Conservative thought. Sample: "Come, come, let's be fair to Franco...
...primeval sex instinct, the libido. During childhood the libido is bound up with such experiences as eating, excreting and thumbsucking. In later years the libido may be transferred to another person (marriage), may remain grounded in childish sex play (perversion), or may overflow as artistic, literary, or musical creation (sublimation). In fact, said Freud, greatest source of creative work is the sex instinct...
...critics who have learned their lesson this time paid Adam respect. "A piece of giant brutality, rugged power and exultant energy," said the Star. "A figure more powerful than the most powerful animal, indeed, a being that is king of all creation," said the Evening Standard. Said bushy-haired Sculptor Epstein, king of the Primitive movement in sculpture (whose authentic impulse none may question, whose enduring value time will tell): "I saw Adam as the questing, mysterious primitive man. I saw him as the fount of all mankind...
After the Titanic catastrophe, eleven shocked maritime nations* held a conference in London which resulted in the creation of the International Derelict Destruction, Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service. They agreed to pay dues on a basis of respective tonnage, asked the U. S. to manage the Ice Patrol. Now two U. S. Coast Guard cutters, during the berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less...
...three lucky ideas: 1) Creation of a Public Works Finance Corp. to finance self-liquidating Federal, State, municipal public works "at any rate of interest . . . necessary to get the business done." 2) To insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements...