Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champagne was clad nattily in a double breasted serge creation with fine, interwoven stripes, while Vaughn Monroe were the same old band trimmed in while pique...
...sense all this fitted well with tradition. Few processes of U.S. government move with such glacial ponderousness as those involved in the creation of a new state. Alaskans, who had voted 3-to-2 to add a 49th star to the flag, were one step-though perhaps it was a short step-closer to their goal...
...three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang with all vocal beauty the extended and difficult solo passages of the Copland work. Mary Crowley accompanied the Malipiero...
...Congress a short & simple resolution was pending, introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana: "That the Congress favors the creation of a United States of Europe within the framework of the United Nations...
...seers, the saints, and the greatest artists. . . . Perhaps untrammeled is the one word which comes closest to suggesting this ultimate quality. ... If [the painter] has attained depth and breadth of character, then he is ready to aspire to that highest kind of freedom, the freedom of effortless creation...