Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway 368 years after it was written. Really two plays without ever achieving the proper sense of a play at all, Tamburlaine has been understandably enough passed by. But, as dynamically staged by Tyrone Guthrie, it richly justifies a for-the-nonce revival. For if a failure, this vast creation of the 23-year-old Marlowe is yet a work of poetic genius; if undramatic, it can be stunningly theatrical; if monotonous, its monotony is a many-splendored thing. The "high, astounding terms" with which 14th century Tamburlaine assailed the world are equally those with which Marlowe assaulted the theater...
...handled well ..." Great decisions are often made quickly, despite protocol and secrecy. "Literally everything is kept under lock and key. The Pope carries the key to his own desk." The notion that the Vatican moves slowly arises from operations "where time is not consequential," e.g., definition of dogma and creation of saints...
...speech before the Conference of Industrial Health in Detroit, McFarland proposed the creation of a new science of human engineering or biotechnology. Such a science would presumably meet the problem of relating human capacity to the demands of modern machinery he said...
...cartoon version of Peter and the Wolf. The life of the penguin is not so gripping as that of the lion, but the brief presentation is charming. The cartooning in the latter picture is good, but wonkie adaptation and commentary will spoil it for most who remember Prokofieff's creation with any affection...
...Creation Room-ovalshaped, with murals of the sun and moon. No. 2 is the Garden of Eden, "where," reads a sign, "Adam and Eve made their great decision." Next is the World Room, with murals inspired by Death Valley, which "represents the lone and dreary world, the testing ground." No. 4 is the Terrestrial Room, "fourth stage on the path to celestial glory, the step before entering the Celestial Kingdom." One of its walls opens onto the fifth room decorated as a luxurious sitting room, with well-upholstered chairs and settees, delicate murals and elaborate chandeliers...