Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current generation is the first one far enough removed from the time of creation to appreciate the Victorian age as an historical epoch. For our parents, Victorianism was a recent experience; though not devoid of meaning, they were too close to judge it objectively. The passing of time has made it easier to discern the stronger and weaker elements of the style...
...personal example: I was the college leader of a group called Forward; it was the most vigorous group on the Left. One day it was proposed that the group Forward sign a manifesto--I am speaking of the year 1931--calling for the creation in Chile of soviets of workers, peasants, soldiers and students. I said then it was madness, that there was not any possibility, that this was a great mistake and that I didn't want, as a student, to sign something that tomorrow, as a professional, I could not accept...
...attempts documented in the book-with the lone exception of one by an embittered seaman who blamed De Gaulle for the World War II destruction of the French fleet by the British-sprang from De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to Algeria. That policy led to the creation of the militant terrorist group known as the Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.), one of whose principal goals was to kill De Gaulle for having betrayed Algérie française. The authors, Pierre Démaret, 31, who once belonged to the O.A.S., and Christian Plume, 48, a journalist...
...LEAST Wicker's newspaper man is his own creation. Morgan, the fictional bureau chief, may not be totally autobiographical, but Wicker's experience as a newspaper man has evidently been of more use to him in constructing fictional newspaper reporters than his experience watching political figures has been in constructing politicians...
...this aeronautical engineer and specialist in communications satellites is not without his poetry. In Childhood's End (1953), the best of his nearly 20 novels and story collections, he pushed the theory of evolution toward a new creation myth, as humankind toddled−with some sadness and a certain lyric mysticism−out of its earthbound nursery toward a higher being. Clarke's best-known work is his collaboration with Director Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001, which viewers left not only humming bits of Richard Strauss but full of wry speculations. Did HAL, the onboard computer, rebel...