Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evans, Guthrie has created a plausible and likeable character, a man who symbolizes the major conflict of the frontier, that between the wishes for responsible individualism and for the protection of a developed social organization. His failure as a dramatic creation is, as Callie says, that "You think too much...
...bring much understanding to the problem of the effect of the West and its history upon its inhabitants. His concentration on one archetypal individual gives his novels more continuity; emphasis on a diverse society might increase their value as social history. Guthrie seems in many ways rather like his creation, Dick Summers (a man who wishes with romantic nostalgia that the West had not been profaned by settlement), rather than a person capable of intellectually determining the spirit of the Westerner. But then reflection on one's cultural background usually comes at a later period in history than...
...authors are no more sympathetic to business than their counterparts of the '30s and earlier. Says White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "It's high time to portray the constructive things businessmen do. The motivation is more than money, it's the excitement of creation...
...major reason for Harvard's need is the phenomenal growth of knowledge itself. Both the chemistry and astronomy departments, for instance, have outgrown their facilities. The young department of social relations never had proper accommodations in the first place. There must also be funds for the continual "creation of new professorships to keep pace with the advance of knowledge...
...Amalgamation may or may not be desired," he concluded, but "the creation of a school system that segregates none of our children against their will and offers all of them equal treatment can only help...