Word: creation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, which he co-authored with Administrative Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull, recommended fundamental changes to the structure of public service at Harvard: the creation of the assistant dean post and also of a faculty standing committee on public service...
...There's a line from The Importance of BeingOscar," she says, "When Wilde, while inprison, writes his friend Lord Alfred Douglas totell him that their friendship was base, becauseit wasn't founded on the creation andcontemplation of beauty." As an actor, you'reideally creating and contemplating--and causingthe audience to contemplate--beauty...
...changes in word choice, rhyme, fulllines--we get a sense of what he was about in theact of poetic creation," she said...
...lived for 20 years as an Iowa farmwife -- was filled with clichas masquerading as erotic eruptions. But Waller knows the secret of romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such shivers had never been experienced or expressed before. Madison County was like the affair it describes: a brief skinny-dip in the warm lake of nostalgia...
Cotan's work oscillates between desire and denial. Its fruit and fish and vegetables are more sacramental than gastronomic, emblems of the variety of God's creation (one of Cotan's still lifes contains a chayote from Mexico, an exotic rarity in 16th century Spain). Your eye can't wallow in such spareness, as it can in the abundance of Flemish still life. It sees the vegetable as Idea, a reading promoted by the fact that Cotan deliberately arranged the objects on strings and shelf to form a hyperbolic curve. The melon opens its delicious interior...