Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also vaguely said that Russia might lift the Iron Curtain to Western traders and tourists "to facilitate the creation of an atmosphere of trust...
...conservatism in such permanent authority, politics tends to consist largely of ideology and favormongering. "Only the slightest ideological nuances divide the harmless Radicals . . . from the Communists" when their parliamentary stentors shout the glorious insurrectionary principles of the Revolution, says Luethy. France, in short, has attained "the seventh day of creation" and wants only to keep what it has. Stability, says Luethy, is the Frenchman's great desire-stability that preserves all the innumerable positions of petty local privilege first won as a rule from the all-compassing state, stability that permits the anarchic individualism by which "everyone is allowed...
...stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
Dinner Party's leading character might just hold her own with an Obolensky, but would feel that she had nothing really adequate to say to an Astor or really adequate to wear for a Beaton. She is more likely to turn up in a creation of three seasons ago, with a not-too-notice able grass stain on the skirt. The Dinner Party, written in diary form, records the daily round of a family just moved from the city while husband Charles writes a book. The diarist-heroine achieves an art less air and a malicious...
...year before the Vienna Opera House was finished, in 1869, one of the architects heard one jape too many about his ornate creation and hanged himself. But no city ever loved its opera house more than Vienna. Under the Habsburgs, young aristocrats and the better-heeled bourgeoisie found it a home away from home, and its corps de ballet was famed for much more than dancing...