Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-styled Fidel Castro not to carry his "campaign of agitation" beyond the election. Saraiva de Carvalho, who will soon face trial for his alleged part in the leftist uprising that Eanes put down last fall, preached "people's power" during the campaign and called for the creation of workers' assemblies that would eventually do away with parliamentary democracy. In the Lisbon industrial belt, particularly in big factory towns like Setubal, Saraiva de Carvalho's appeal swayed as many as 40% of the voters...
...Hafez Assad are not encouraging the rhetoric of holy war. Arabs are not theologically blinded to the larger secular issues of international power. In Lebanon, for example, a tangled social history has preceded what might seem at first glance an essentially religious struggle. The roots lay in the creation by the French in 1920 of a greater Lebanon from the remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire. This Lebanon combined a predominantly Maronite Christian area, which had had a semiautonomous status in the past, with Moslem regions. The country's Moslems have tended to identify with the Arab Orient, while...
Daffy Asides. Silent Movie is welcome not the least for its audacity. Nobody makes silent movies any more, but the last person who might be expected to try is Brooks, who began his career cooking up outrageous interludes for Sid Caesar, consorted with Carl Reiner in the creation of the splendidly garrulous 2,000 Year Old Man (2,013 on his last birthday), and made a group of antic movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) that needed dialogue for life's blood. Brooks' favorite weapon was the non sequitur (mankind's greatest invention, according...
...creation of a writing center is among major proposals under consideration for the expansion this fall of the Harvard Expository Writing Department...
...rose window. Because it is deeply recessed and in shade much of the time, LeCompte used chipped nuggets of thick glass designed to pick up and transmit light all day long. Realizing that individual figures are lost to viewers far below, he used abstract forms to depict the creation theme. The result is one of the most distinctive rose windows ever designed...