Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eiffel tower that houses the Scoialist Party headquarters, sandwiched between a bakery and an apartment building. The night of the second round of the historic legislative elections on June 21, the crowd in front was thick and the mood festive. The Socialist Party, for the first time since its creation, had just won an absolute majority in parliament. For those present, this confirmation of France's "left turn" a month earlier--the election of Francois Mitterand as president--transformed a feeling of alienation into one of confident belonging. Yet above all, the Socialists were careful. "We'll have fun tonight...
...coded message to report the first successful test at Alamogordo that read, "Babies satisfactorily born"-as if to urge innocence on evil. After Hiroshima, the historical fact could not be expunged; still one could avoid looking at the weapon directly. Only its inventors never seemed to shrink from their creation. The day of the Alamogordo explosion, J. Robert Oppenheimer stared out at the New Mexico flats and recalled a Hindu text...
Freemasonry, an Anglo-Saxon creation first transplanted to Florence in 1733, was soon under attack by the Catholic Church. The Masonic principles of nonsectarianism and ab stract belief in a "Great Architect of the Universe" were viewed as an intolerable threat by Pope Clement XII, who issued the first papal edict that ordered excommunication of any Catholics who became Masons. Masons were often regarded as subversive political freethinkers by the Italian principalities. By the mid-19th century, in fact, many of the most prominent nationalist leaders of the Italian risorgimento were Masons. Among them: Giuseppe Mazzini and the notoriously antipapal...
...reads lyric poetry on her nights off. The pair were the best thing about Superman I, and they are even better here. So are the special-effects people, whose work is far more polished technically than it was before. Taken together, all these people have contributed to the creation of something that is increasingly hard to find these days-an entertainment that actually achieves a near weightless state. It is unfair to burden such a work with excesses of praise. Suffice it to say that Superman II is a movie no kid need be ashamed to take his parents...
...Chicago Realty Mogut Evangeline Gouletas awards herself an ovation on the eve of marrying Governor Hugh Carey of New York: "In Chicago, they love me. In Chicago, I am already First Lady." Novelist Gore Vidal confides why the New York Times published a favorable review of his new book Creation: "They're desperate for me to write for them...