Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1969, fundamentalists have been encouraged by Dr. John Ford, a San Diego physician and vice president of the state board of education, who has campaigned for mention of the biblical version of creation in all science textbooks. Evolution, said Ford, "should not be accepted as fact without alluding to creationism, which is felt to be sound by many scientists." That year, the board went along, issuing revised guidelines that urged the inclusion of both "theories." The guidelines were optional, however, and no major publisher adopted them. This year, after Dr. Ford raised the issue again, a state textbook commission...
...earlier this year for The Classical Style. In the current issue of the literary journal Prose, Rosen argues that for concert performers, at least, stage fright is an outgrowth of the questionable principle that recitalists must perform from memory. Playing by heart may make the performance seem a spontaneous creation of the virtuoso himself. But since the audience already has in mind an idealized notion of the music, an inevitable gap opens between concept and realization. Public humiliation awaits the performer who lets the gap get too broad...
...becomes a real liability in one area: conceptualism. The basic claim of conceptual art is that making objects is irrelevant. The artist's duty is to reveal and criticize the attitudes by which art is made. In fact, painting and sculpture have always done this; every authentic creation is also a criticism, but criticism is not its sole subject. Instead, as Art Critic Max Kozloff pointed out in a trenchant essay on art-as-idea, we get "deliberately undigested accretions of data, documentations without comment, the purveying of information for its own sake, and the measuring of meaningless quantities...
...repressive motifs of childhood, the disastrous emotional episodes which combine with social conditions to shape our character-formation: these appear to me no less conclusive than the version of the universe's origin quoted somwhere in Scholem; "When God created His world, He first created the Book of Creation and looked into it and from it created His world...
...remotely fond of drama would want Arthur Miller to stop writing plays, but it would have been a blessing if someone-either God or the Devil-had stopped him from indulging in Creation...