Word: creation
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Kaysen then took the issue to the board of trustees who approved both the creation of the department and the hiring of Bellah...
...Brownmiller's view, civilization is in fact built upon rape. When primitive man realized he could force intercourse while women could not, "this single factor may have been sufficient to have caused the creation of a male ideology of rape. When men discovered that they could rape, they proceeded to do it . . . Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone...
...subdued affection that never becomes condescending. The movie is well served too by an engaging Jeff Bridges and an altogether nifty cast of freshly minted characters, among whom Alan Arkin may be observed in full and wondrous cry. Arkin appears as an unctuous, anxious director named Kessler, a creation of devastating sardonic accuracy. His directions to his cowboy extras, delivered in a tone of hollow camaraderie, are depressingly, hilariously on the mark...
Picnic Forks. In JR, the patterns are again discernible, this time in a world where means have few ends-only the creation of more means; where the techniques of doing things have become more important than the things themselves; where language is debased in the service of such perversions. The book generates a cacophony of banalities and corruptions that drown out love, art, and whatever other human activities can be heard struggling beneath the din. At such moments, JR seems derivative of Thomas Pynchon's V and Gravity's Rainbow. But it is more likely that Pynchon...
Radcliffe is looking for an administrative dean for financial affairs. The post has not existed before and its creation probably was due in part to the $323,000 Carnegie Foundation grant Radcliffe got this week...