Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead essentially is the play--the challenge it posed to the Theater Workshop and the way that challenge was met. The Odets was done exceedingly well, but even at its best it offered nowhere near the range of expression in either acting or staging that belongs to Shaw's creation. From every conceivable standpoint "Saint Joan" is a high-water mark in Harvard dramatics. If you let it slip by without seeing it, you are depriving yourself of a rare opportunity to see a great play professionally and imaginatively performed...
...complete, but which it was impossible for God to accomplish by Himself, out of His own perfection. And the Devil has done more for God than this; for, when once Yin has passed over into Yang, not the Devil himself can prevent God from completing His fresh act of creation by passing over again from Yang to Yin on a higher level. . . . Thus the Devil is bound to lose the wager, not because he has been cheated by God, but because he has overreached himself...
...this sense, the answer to the problem of history is the answer to the problem of evil. This is the philosophic crux of that act of creation which in the birth of civilizations Toynbee calls Challenge and Response...
...well as the absence of the neutral influence of smaller countries not directly concerned with the situation in the eastern Mediterranean suggest that the General Assembly would be more suitable as the supervisory body. (The planned purpose of the General Assembly was defined at Dumbarton Oaks as the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations.") Although the calling of a special meeting of the General Assembly and the time necessary for the wheels of humanitarianism to grind into action would carry considerably beyond the purely arbitrary March 31 deadline...
...World War II is not that the world received another chance to establish universal peace, but that this has become the American Century whose sole vital activity--even to the point of war consists in preventing it from becoming the Russian. With faith in the United Nations, for whose creation we are so largely responsible, the United States can not only help to solve the present tragic dilemma of the Greek people, but to revive the guttering hopes of the peoples of the world that America stands for peace on the mutual understanding between all nations...