Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This plot has at least the skeleton of an excellent musical comedy. Had an experienced editor taken hold of the project, the results might have been more palatable. But apparently no one did, and Mr. Blitzstein's creation remains a confusing hodge-podge of unsatisfying songs and dances. He seems almost wholly innocent of a sense of logical progression from scene to scene. One somehow has the feeling that in the last act, the scenery should disappear, and a narrator, or perhaps the author himself, should emerge to tell the audience exactly what the noise is all about...
Last week, at 70, Sir William made a public announcement that got his picture in the New York Times. He reported the creation of a private world bank, the first of its kind, named the Transoceanic Development Corp., Ltd. Sponsored by Kuhn, Loeb, First Boston Corp., and London's S. G. Warburg, the corporation has 27 participating firms famed in the banking world. Among them: Credit Suisse, David and Laurance Rockefeller, Sal Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. (Cologne), N. M. Rothschild & Sons (London), Deutsche Bank Group (Frankfurt), Amsterdamsche Bank (Holland). The bank's purpose is to buy equity shares...
General Education not only provided the opportunity for those already interested; it provided an atmosphere convincing to those who weren't. Its very creation provoked, in President Pusey's words, "a real enthusiasm and a release of vitality...
...seventh day He rested. It has taken varsity track coach Bill McCurdy about the same time to assure himself that he has one of the best cross-country teams of his career and this afternoon, instead of resting, he takes it to Providence to prove that his creation will endure...
...creation of an African middle class." Can the Africans achieve this alone? Cloete does not think so. "I had hoped," he says, "that when the African was on his own ... he would be capable of great things ... I had thought that the white man was the black man's problem. I was wrong. The African's problem is to get on without...