Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what turned out to be the largest Boston-area demonstration in almost two years, more than 10,000 people jammed the Congress St. dock near Boston harbor to call for the impeachment of Nixon. The demonstration, which included a counter reenactment to the official re-creation of the Boston Tea Party, concentrated on peaceful opposition to Nixon in general and his oil policies in particular...
...inmate exodus had its roots in the 1950s when more and more psychiatrists challenged the concept of custodial institutions. In 1963 the Community Mental Health Centers Act was passed. Aimed at eliminating the "human warehouses" state hospitals had become, the bill envisioned the eventual creation of 2,000 local clinics to provide counseling and care...
Directing a cartoon, like directing a full-length movie, requires total immersion in every aspect of the creation. Jones worked on the story with the writer, made all the important drawings himself, supervised the background painting, even collaborated on the sound effects and music. He habitually speaks of his characters as if they were people ("The Coyote fulfills Santayana's definition of a fanatic-someone who redoubles his efforts when he's forgotten his aim"). Moreover, he thinks of them as people who make ideal actors: they can achieve any facial expression or gesture the director desires, thus...
...learned to take comets more seriously-as primordial chunks of matter left over from the birth of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Thus Kohoutek, which was spotted first at the Hamburg Observatory last March, offers a splendid opportunity for observers to learn more about the drama of creation. Indeed, because the comet was discovered so long before its close approach to the sun, there has been time for elaborate preparation. Kohoutek may well be the most intensely scrutinized celestial object in the history of astronomy; it will be tracked and studied by thousands of scientists and an incredible...
...literary friends, Henry James, Arnold Bennett; and his socialist friends in the Fabian Society, including George Bernard Shaw. In 1946, after two world wars, he wrote Mind at the End of its Tether. Here Wells finally resolves his classic conflict: The mind, in the evolutionary process, in the creation of visionary socialist societies, could simply not be counted...