Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scheduled 40 years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising-and a follow-up to the first world gathering of some 4,000 survivors and their children in Israel two years ago-the Washington meeting attracted some 12,000 American and Canadian survivors. Last week's meeting also marked the creation of a U.S. Holocaust memorial museum that will be financed by a $75 million fund-raising drive. The Government has donated two buildings near the Mall that will serve as the museum's center...
Pepper is far from a one-issue legislator. In 1945 he sponsored a resolution that led to the creation of the World Health Organization and, in the late '40s, bills establishing five of the National Institutes of Health. Not only does he favor a freeze on nuclear arms now, but he advocated one after the end of World War II. Still, nothing offends his sense of justice quite as much as modern society's tendency to view the elderly as a burden or a stereotyped group. He does not feel complimented when someone tells...
...ailing public school system, which has been reeling since court imposed busing made national headlines in 1975. Kearney proposes the development of a city-wide core curriculum (probably not based on Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's creation), giving parents "flexible assignment" in the choice of schools, and using "the power of the purse to attract back to the school system those students who have an option...
Rockwell seems truly to empathize with the underdog and the outsider, especially in his discussions of Palmeri and the seminal Black jazz-funk alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Throughout the book, he stresses the importance of alienation in the creation and development of art and the plight of those who go unappreciated by their public. But he is severe on composers and artists who bend to the will of their audience and waters down his praise for popular musicians such as Keith Jarrett or Philip Glass...
Porgy's strengths are obvious. The creation of one of America's most brilliant native musical talents, the opera boasts a number of songs that have become standards: Summertime; I Got Plenty o' Nuttin '; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain 't Necessarily So. More subtle, but no less impressive, are the choruses, which give voice to the residents of Catfish Row: their lamentation in Gone, Gone, Gone, their exuberance in Ain't Got No Shame, their terror in Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens. Proudly, Gershwin considered his work "the greatest music...