Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audiences who have heard Miss Anderson sing Crucifixion have sometimes been too awed to applaud. They have sensed that they are participants in an act of creation-the moment at which religion informs art, and makes it greater than itself...
...issues of the 20's and 30's are not the live issues of the 40's. In order to get the same top-quality treatment of these burning contemporary questions, younger men must be encouraged, and encouraged with the importance of their contribution kept fully in mind. The creation of even half-dozen assistant professorships would not be too high a payment to make, it would attract to Harvard, or keep at Harvard the best of our generation of political scholars. For a generation lost in Government is the same as centuries in many other fields...
From the beginning, its impresario has been Stanley Sumner, who serves as the manager and part owner (with Lindsey Hooper) of the incorporated establishment. Sumner initially had two obstacles to overcome--the deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring...
...plans may move to combine the two projects. As for the Medical Center, there can be no question as to the need for enlarged, modernized, and more conveniently located medical service and equipment. This is a need for enlargement of existing, if strained facilities, however, rather than for the creation of totally new ones. It can and should be taken care of, but by more ordinary financial measures than a fund for a war memorial...
...award, as congratulatory messages and telegrams began to reach him at his home. He stated, however, that the award could have nothing whatever to do with the work he did for the Government, and dampened rumors that he had been one of the "silent" men behind the creation of the atom bomb by disclosing that his war work had consisted of experiments testing the effects of high pressure on steel used in armor plating. Bridgman deprecated the value of this work and said that it had been discontinued even before...