Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense. Barzilai's story was a pack of lies, he implied. "How could you believe," he asked Barzilai, "that for so paltry a sum as $5,000 you could buy King Solomon's throne, his raiment and the treasure dating back to the days of creation-especially as my magic hadn't even helped your wife?" Answered Barzilai: "I believed because you swore on the Bible, and I am a simple...
Possibly the proposed plan will not be approved, possibly it will be amended. But whatever its particular failings and whatever its forte it deserves great consideration for it goes to the root of the matter. It looks in the right direction--towards the creation of a council which will represent not only the bodies but the minds of the undergraduates. --From the Harvard CRIMSON, February...
Like her big-eyed heroine. Author Salaman, who now lives in London, was born and raised in the Ukraine. Her re-creation of childhood is movingly written and preserves the old Russia-with its endless talk, fumbling aspirations and comfortable inefficiency-like a giant in amber. The final chapter tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler...
...Harding U. Greene, vice-President of the Cambridge Electric Co., will appear on WGBH-TV at 6:50 p.m. the same evening. President Pusey, who serves on the Citizens' Advisory Committee with other prominent Cambridge citizens, has not missed any bi-weekly meetings of the committee since its creation last year...
...best of the Italian contributions, remarkable chiefly in the story it tells. "Vieni qua," says the famed Italian actor (Amedeo Nazzari). The shabby little streetwalker (Giulietta Masina) can hardly believe her ears, but she jumps into his flashy American car, and they drive to his villa, a California! creation on the Appian Way. "Where do you live?" he asks her idly, as she nibbles at caviar and lobster in his overpoweringly seductive apartment. "Oh," she answers him, dazed with all the magnificence and trying desperately to live up to it, "I'm not like the others. I never sleep...