Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using broken paintbrush handles and odd bits of wire for stiffening, the artist molded a quick study of a dancer observed at a moment where awkwardness and beauty balance. In its very casualness it is as close as the viewer can come to Degas' actual moment of creation. As such, it is well worth the study. For in his masterly ability to render form in motion, few artists have surpassed Degas...
Despite the public's present divorcement from poetry, Muir said, the appreciation and even the creation of verse were once very much public property. Two hundred years ago people lived in a handicraft culture, and Muir felt that artisans who could produce a fine chair would be more likely to appreciate a well constructed poem than would the owner of a large furniture store...
...proposal by the three powers does not accord with the demands of the creation of effective European security, and . . . would make the situation in Europe even more aggravated."-We can't think of a good reason to reject it, but we reject it anyway...
...This country should be ready to institute possible economic sanctions as well as diplomatic pressure, against either side, or both, to halt open warfare between Israel and the Arabs. Once the fighting is stopped, we should also move to implement the UN Truce Commission's recent proposals for the creation of an effective demilitarized zone between Israel and her neighbors. Barbed wire and 1000 yards of open space, if adequately patrolled by UN inspectors can at least make border raids more difficult to undertake than they are at present...
...Adams House presentation will be a New England premiere of "The Mother of Us All," first put on in 1947. Victor Yellin, Adams House music tutor and director of this production, describes the opera as a serious intellectual creation which uses the post-Civil War struggles of Susan B. Anthony, a leading suffragette, to exemplify the spirit that has led to the attainment of American goals and freedoms...