Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overlooking this fact, and in the face of strong verbal resistance to their proposal, Britain has back-tracked and now presents a new plan which might have been adequate two years ago, but which today merely exudes a weary self-interest. It calls for the creation of two semi-autonomous States. Arab and Jewish, subject to over-all British authority. No specific boundaries would be set--the areas of the States would be decided upon by the majority of the population in the particular section. Jewish immigration would be upped from its present 1,500 per month figure...
...least of the picture's merits is its innovation of alternating technicolor and monochrome to depict earth and heaven. The latter is a highly fanciful creation, and the Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...
...meeting coincidental with the issuance of the regulations, the Student Council Committee on Extra-curicular Activities recommended last night the creation of a council group to investigate the whole range of undergraduate enterprises...
...round table on the precise nature of the organizational structure. The Texas plan demanded that all presently organized groups be barred: spokesmen from organizations as widely separately as the AVD and the parochial Newman Clubs of America asked inclusion as voting delegates. The resulting compromise called for the creation of a council of the 19 organizations which would wield 10% of the executive committee's voting strength through three joint delegates working side by side with the campus-electees...
Professional musicians and musicologists are still locked in hot debate about the musical origins of the spirituals and the manner of their creation. One simple fact is clear-they were created in direct answer to the Psalmist's question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? For the land in which the slaves found themselves was strange beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive...