Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government and reason enough to call off the citywide strike. To keep the pressure on, steelworkers briefly closed the giant Huta Warszawa plant, and the Warsaw union put other factories on "strike alert." The aim was to force talks on a series of other, highly incendiary demands. Among them: creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the operations of the police and the state prosecutor, and budget cuts for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees law enforcement. By thus challenging the state security apparatus, the unions were in effect directing a challenge at the heart of the Communist system...
Mary Shelley's succulent description of Victor Frankenstein's moment of triumph-a moment that Hollywood traditionally illustrated with flashes of lightning and showers of sparks-dramatizes one of the most fundamental metaphors in mythology: the creation of an artificial man. It is an idea that can be traced back to the folklore of man's own creation. According to Greek legend, the first humans were robots formed out of clay by the Titan Prometheus...
...asked visitors what they wanted and even engaged them in polite conversation. The end of the legend was that Albertus' celebrated pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who was himself considered rather demonic, gave lectures on the creation of a homunculus and even offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout Rabbi Judah Loew was reported to have created out of clay a giant robot known as a golem. This figure, which came to life when a tablet...
...said Kierkegaard, so evidently the rich do likewise. They start out shimmying with hope and wind up hung over, believing with Baudelaire that the world will end by being swallowed up in an immense yawn. Their gardens are Candide's, not Eden's. Ever present at the creation, they find it wanting, and ask for sympathy in their autobiographies...
While the formal creation of an Executive Cabinet may not occur, Reagan advisers have said they are receptive to the idea of strengthening the role of the cabinet and downgrading that of the White House staff...