Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search of the Constitution and the history of its creation reveals a disfavor of Government privileges, or at least uncontrolled privileges. Early in the Convention of 1787, the delegates cautioned each other concerning the dangers of lodging immoderate power in the Executive Department. This attitude persisted throughout the convention...
...Lost Lady was fine, and I thought a shrewd appraisal of her, except that you took no note of the book's price, $7.95. It bears on a point of some interest to writers now, for the oblivion that swallowed her until now was of her own creation, due to the agreement she made with Alfred Knopf that she was never to be published in cheap editions. Tempus of course fugitted; my The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared in paperback for 250, and the floodgates were opened. But she was left high and dry: unwittingly, by her somewhat smug...
...Creation of the Plumbers
Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, Richardson's creation now so roundly hated by the White House, plans to spend the rest of his professional life pursuing the Nixon Administration's corruption, and his domain already includes 33 attorneys and a $2.8 million annual budget. The other day, when Cox contemplated the possibility that he could be fired by Nixon, he chuckled and allowed as how the President would have to fire Richardson too and in the current medieval atmosphere that might prove hard to do. Every move and every word of Richardson are scrutinized, and since he still...
...Mailer couldn't let the poor tortured girl rest in Peace? Dick Cavett and Mike Wallace grilled him on their video griddles; and not least of these attentions was the cover of Time Magazine, which had Mailer's fuzzy silver bush of hair being fondled by Monroe, a composite creation made possible by the insertion of a picture of the fifty year old dean of American literary machismo into a slot vacated by the original fondlee, Monroe's third husband--the former saint of the liberal theater in America, Arthur Miller. Cruel scissors, ironic paste! Mailer had ballooned in stature...