Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entitled "An Approach to Poetry," Humanities 130 was an inquiry into the nature of the poetic art. The aim of the course "was to encourage students to re-create, rather than merely appreciate, poetry." MacLeish emphasized that 12 minutes of re-creation are worth 12 weeks of appreciation...
Mitchell's reforms will require no elaborate system of enforcement or constant federal intervention in union affairs; they simply require reports to the Labor Department on union operations. But behind the paper work there will be muscle. Mitchell proposed the creation of the post of Commissioner of Labor, with power to subpoena records and individuals, and a change in the law to give federal courts jurisdiction in cases of embezzlement of union funds, which now fall exclusively to state courts. With this kind of added strength, the Labor Department could be certain of keeping all sore spots in union...
...Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties of the NATO alliance-the insistence on selfish national objectives, the tendency to "let George do it." More than any diplomat, he influences the day-by-day progress of NATO-the integration of armed forces, the creation of a coherent system of logistics and supply, all the niggling but vital details of forging an effective military coalition...
Under the direction of Attilio Poto, the work received a performance that was consistently solid and occasionally superb. "The Creation" contains some of Haydn's greatest music, and this was conveyed without any of the idiosyncracies that can so easily mar an otherwise satisfactory reading...
...performance of large works, such as "The Creation," provides a definite simulus to Harvard music. Annual joint performances on the calibre of last evening's would be rewarding and enjoyable contributions...