Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roses in the Deserts. Able New York Industrialist Morehead Patterson, appointed by President Eisenhower to press negotiations with the other "have" nations, promised to "move fast." But the U.S. was not going to wait for creation of the agency itself. To get Eisenhower's program started in spirit and fact, the U.S. offered a proposition of its own. It was ready, said Lodge, to conclude bilateral agreements with other nations to help them build and operate research reactors; the U.S. would furnish technical advice and help, and supply fissionable materials. In addition, the U.S. would throw open a large...
...more than 200 bishops, Pope Pius XII would fix jewel-studded crowns to the painting, first above the Infant's head, then above the Virgin's, to symbolize the fact that the Roman Catholic Church regards the Virgin as the reigning "Queen of Heaven [and] of all creation...
...most positive action which came out of the controversy was the creation of a now Office of the Dean of Students. By June the trustees had become sufficiently worked up over the case to feel Nassau Hall needed some minor adjustments. By taking the social responsibility out of the hands of the Dean of the College and giving it to a special man, they felt they would end future misunderstandings between the administration and its charges...
...Allen's Treadmill to Oblivion, which tells the story of the life and death of his famed radio show. Allen read some acid commentary on the industry (including the old saw that "advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission"), and there was a pleasant nostalgia to his re-creation of Allen's Alley. The remainder of Omnibus' 90 minutes was devoted to some mildly interesting but hardly experimental films: the escape of two ballet dancers from behind the Iron Curtain and a U.S. travelogue...
...fleeing from the temptation and challenge of fame. The artist goes in self-exile to a desolate "honest island" with a woman who is the spirit, within himself, of learning and self-improvement. But also within him is the spirit of a former mistress, fame, still calling him to creation. Using the vitality and comfort of fortune and power as her lures, she holds behind these overt blandishments the artist's recollection of his past creations and the joy they brought him. In his withdrawal from fame and creation is the basis of his discontent, for the force of learning...