Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President may well have had in mind, in opening the Red Sea to American shipping, the creation of an incident to drag us into the war," Professor Hankins charged...
...Creation of OPACS marks a sea change in both the President's recent views and the new commissioner's standing. Only seven weeks ago Mr. Roosevelt put himself on record with an all-out acceptance of the Gano Dunn report (which is the No. 1 red rag to New Dealers). And in January Henderson believed his "too little too late" views on the need of expansion were getting so poor a hearing at the White House that he went off on a long vacation to the Virgin Islands. About that time rumors spread that he was through with...
...Indian Summer," Van Wyck Brooks was attacking American literature for failing to realize its potentialities. "In these days," Lewis Mumford once wrote, "Mr. Brooks was the first to announce that we had still to use its earth and its sky and the experience that lay between them in the creation of American art and thought." Returning to his capacity as critic rather than historian, Brooks here attacks the prevalent cynicism and defeatism in our contemporary writing...
...printed summary of the work that some 1006 members of the Cambridge community have accomplished under the direction of Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy the creation of a number of other new committees was also disclosed...
Moberg's peasants, working always in the soil, thinking in terms of generations -of plants, of animals, of themselves - feel that they are part of a never-ending process of creation, deriving from the past, foreshadowing the future. This feeling makes them crudely mystical, stolidly enduring, slow to change, suspicious of the nervous life and fidgety minds of cities. Knut Hamsun understood that being a peasant is not just a rural occupation, but a complete way of living and thinking, with which he sympathized. Moberg understands the peasant's life too, but does not sympathize. He has ideas...