Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proposed last week was the first reorganization plan for Income Tax Evader Howard Hopson's Associated Gas utility system since it went into bankruptcy two years ago. The plan: creation of a new grandfather holding company to liquidate the present parent companies and eventually distribute the shares of the operating companies to the security holders. Its proposer: Henry A. Stix, once Hopson's corporate accounting wizard, who turned State's evidence at Hopson's trial, and so impressed prosecutor Hugh Fulton that he helped get Stix several jobs with the Government...
...Thanksgiving, makes unpleasant remarks about the New Deal. Canby noticed that as Grandfather was leaving, Grandson Danny, age nine, "shrank a little from his kiss." "Danny takes things too hard," said Canby. But the most successful (and funniest) scenes in the book are Author Hicks's re-creation of the endless political patter of the radicals. Best is probably a weekend cocktail party at Comrade Wallace Burgin's, where Wife Christina thoughtlessly asks the unpardonable question: "Are you a member of the Communist Party, Selma...
Nevertheless, "everyone seemed to feel an almost religious faith in the creation of a system which would assure universal peace for long years to come...
...being a hoax. His ingenuous personality and his unashamed bravado puzzled the more mature and sophisticated onlookers. But now he is recognized as the leader of a one-man cult. He wants mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole. As he has pointed out, one does not stop Beethoven's Seventh in the Second Movement to inquire if the third oboe player has honorable intentions toward the second violins. Saroyan's fantasies...
...country will now be urged to get behind the program. "As Christian citizens," its sponsors affirmed, "we must seek to translate our beliefs into practical realities and to create a public opinion which will insure that the United States shall play its full and essential part in the creation of a moral way of international living...