Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most beautiful toy in the world.' " So said French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau, 31, as he contemplated the prospect of staging the centennial celebration of the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner's longest, densest and most puzzling creation. The results were on display last week at the somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some...
...involve the taking of hostages. Israel has begun taking steps too. Israeli Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi told the Knesset that he is going to propose a law to bar from Israel's airports all airlines lacking sufficient anti-terrorist security measures. Jerusalem also plans to propose the creation of an international agency to exchange information on skyjacking and to agree on guidelines for the handling of terrorists if a skyjacking takes place. Warned Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon last week: "The terror is not directed only against Israel. Each country can find itself in a position where...
...frequently abused internally and externally. But Americans continue to struggle against these abuses and for the survival of the universal principles enunciated in 1776. There is therefore still hope that America's great power will be used for human beings everywhere, rather than simply for the preservation and creation of American national wealth...
...which, he claimed, intellectuals in the West were disaffected with "'bourgeois' values such as liberty and democracy." Thus the left's critique of the United States can remain merely a negative phenomenon, without any alternative vision for the future, and--because the protesters were supposedly a Western, not American, creation--without any real validity for this nation...
...samhället is the creation of Sweden's Social Democratic Party, now headed by Prime Minister Olof Palme, which has ruled the country (sometimes with coalition partners) for the past 44 years. Scarcely Marxist, the party long ago discarded belief in class warfare and state ownership of the means of production. Sweden's socialism has encouraged continued capitalist ownership of enterprises (90% of industry is in private hands) and private investment in new areas of production...