Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this 457-page forest of quotations, no child's eye will readily find the Tree. To follow even the simple counterpoint the book makes on the theme of the world's creation would take a well-annotated score. From the Norse "Erst was the age when nothing was; Nor sand nor sea" the creation melody runs through the Egyptian "Heaven had not come into being, the earth had not come into being," comes finally to Genesis: "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Editor Smith apparently believes repetition...
...Orchestra Association picked the best available man they could find to take his place, Tauno Hannikainen. The first concert justified the selection and assured the permanency of the orchestra but there would have been no orchestra without Paul Lemay and Duluth still thinks of it as his creation...
History is not going to judge music by its original environment or function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana...
...revolts and insurrections from Albania to Slovenia seemed to be organized either by spontaneous local groups of peasants and workers or by Communists. Said a traveler to Istanbul from Sofia: "The Bulgarian people today see the sole hope for their country's future salvation in the creation of closer ties with Russia." The London Daily Herald's correspondent cabled from Istanbul: "If a Balkan front were to be opened up by the United Nations today . . . there would be revolution in Bulgaria tomorrow...
This installation is the creation of diminutive, Austrian-born Scenic Designer Frederick J. Kiesler, director of the laboratory of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. Says he, making everything plain: "We, the inheritors of chaos, must be the architects of a new unity...