Word: creation
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...sometimes sentimental, humorist of the editorial page since the end of 1926. At first, "The Student Vagabond" embodied an anonymous impersonal editor who would recommend certain lectures for possible browsers to audit. Eventually and inevitably, however, Vag's name stirred editorial imagination, and two years after his creation, he was becoming a composite of the lackadaisical, as well as the wise, Harvard...
Henry V is one of the great experiences in the history of motion pictures. It is not, to be sure, the greatest: the creation of new dramatic poetry is more important than the recreation of old. For such new poetry, movies offer the richest opportunity since Shakespeare's time, and some of them have made inspired use of the chance. But Henry V is a major achievement-this perfect marriage of great dramatic poetry with the greatest contemporary medium for expressing...
Jurors carefully noted the stunning creation atop the stunning Mrs. Bigelow, awarded her theater treble damages of $360,000. In upholding this verdict, after reversal, the Supreme Court by no means guaranteed that film-renting would be as easy as hat-buying hereafter. For one thing, owners of small independent neighborhood theaters cannot afford to bid for first-run rentals against big houses...
Some of the situations are tried, true and a little tired. But the Rumanian siren, speaking sonorously in a participial dialect of her own, is a fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...
...help him supervise the University's vast "housekeeping" details, President Conant announced Tuesday the creation of a new post of Administrative Vice-President and the appointment of Edward Reynolds '15 to fill...