Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied the brain and its functions and at the same time admired and acknowledged its designer. In our humanistic and scientific period, we admire the marvel of the brain and that is all. It is too bad because the scientific people who leave out the most important fact about creation do not know the satisfactions they are missing...
...cease-fire agreement also called for the creation of a National Council of Reconciliation and Concord (composed of representatives of the Saigon government, the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, and "neutrals") that would be the forerunner of a coalition government in Saigon. But attempts at reconciliation quickly degenerated into hopeless name-calling, and the council was never formed...
...that gave tone and texture to the whole book. Writing the book means approximating in the best words available something that already exists in a mental realm from which Nabokov rescues, recreates, excavates it. A subtle relation between levels of possibility--in thought and in vocabulary--participates in the creation of the words that firmly but transparently exist there on the page...
...transformed the traditional Persian arts, previously the province of a tiny, cultivated elite, into a more widely based, commercially successful venture. He was a generous patron, who took a personal interest in the production of anything that added to the glory of his reign. Isfahan was so completely his creation that his corrupt successors did not significantly change the outward shape of his society. Yet their dissipation ate away at its heart. Isfahan's essential weakness was betrayed when the city fell to an illassorted Afghan army in 1722, bringing to an end an era that had always been...
...actual play, this variation would also result in the creation of two new counters (shown in different colors) under the simultaneous operation of the Law of Birth...