Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Keeley shows how Cavafy's development of his "myth in progress" paralleled his personal acceptance of Alexandria in literal and metaphorical terms--and how the mythical city increasingly shut out the real one below Cavafy's apartment window. Thus, imagination and memory became the primary agents of poetic re-creation, giving the real city importance as a "catalyst" for the synthesis of a poetic myth...
...poet's passions. Such an advancement mirrored Cavafy's developing belief in honest acceptance of one's passions and surroundings, in bowing to the inevitability of circumstance and human limitations. This belief became the sole moral yardstick by which he could judge him self and others. The creation of a myth around his own city--about which he had ambivalent feelings--as well as the acceptance and open avowal through his poetry of passions which were unacceptable to his cultural milieu, were ongoing expositions of the poet's personal unveiling and his commitment to honesty. During Cavafy's last years...
...first announced in 1969 that he would give Paris "a landmark of our time." A connoisseur and collector of art, Pompidou was dismayed by Paris' gradual loss of stature as an art capital. He dreamed of a building that would be "both a museum and a center for creation, where the plastic arts would exist alongside music, cinema, books, audio-visual research. Its creativity would obviously be modern and continually changing." The location: Beaubourg, once a bourgeois neighborhood between the Bastille and Les Halles, but for the past century a decaying slum. Specifically, planners chose a five-acre patch...
...modern art, almost twice the size of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. There will be a 1-million-volume library, one of the few in Paris open to the general public, complete with language laboratories and film and tape-recording resources. A Center of Industrial Creation will offer information on everything from the design of everyday objects to the modern city as an archaeological site. Still incomplete is an Institute of Musical Acoustical Research and Coordination, to be directed by Pierre Boulez. There are rooftop gardens, a film center, child-care facilities and a restaurant. The center...
...M.B.A. tournament is largely the creation of Gary D.J. Orosy, 23, a second-year Cornell student from Montvale, N.J., who likes to wear three-piece suits complete with gold watch tab and chains. He is given to statements like "They don't crown No. 2 in life...