Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes like swimming without your limbs--you just sink. But when it works, you fly, and without instruments. Second City took flight on a December night in 1959, opening in a converted laundry on North Wells Street, not far from the present, more spacious theater. It was the creation of two University of Chicago alumni, Sahlins and Paul Sills. Earlier, Sills had co-founded the Compass Players, where Mike Nichols and Elaine May first scored their sharp points. Just as the Compass had been, Second City was to be a showcase for performers whose native wit had been quickened...
Where the show fails, however, it bores. In the promisingly-titled "The Creation of the World." Marceau coordinates hand motions with music in what must be an appalling effort; but the significance and meaning of the gestures get lost. He flutters, jiggles, shakes, undulates and climbs--but why? His face conveys amazement, wonder, triumph, haughtiness in a way that is amusing but confusing. During these skits, a viewer's mind can't help but stray to the question of how much Marceau must pay his doubtlessly-busy masseur...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility was established in 1972 by President Bok to advise the Harvard Corporation "concerning the social and ethical implications of the choices it must make as a major shareholder in many companies," according to the University. The creation of the Committee constituted a formal recognition of the fact that in certain circumstances, considerations of good citizenship on the University's part supersede economic calculation...
...Bomby, as well as in The Plain Truth, a fundamentalist magazine, creationists argue the beetle could not possibly have evolved separate chambers of chemicals that, in the event of a genetic misstep, would have blown the insect up. A prominent member of the Institute for Creation Research, Duane Gish, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, contends the beetle would not have any use for its storage, temperature and aiming facilities until they were completely formed. Says he: "I would challenge Dr. Eisner to sketch out how an ordinary beetle could evolve into a bombardier...
...Butts was content to be unknown as the man who invented Scrabble, one of the most popular board games of all time, with an estimated 90 million games sold over three decades. Then Butts' wife died, and the widower, who is a retired architect, found that even his own creation was no consolation since at least two people are required to play. So he went back to the tile board to see if he still had the magic touch. The result is called, appropriately, Alfred's Other Game. Related to Scrabble, though not quite zygomorphically (40 points in the original...