Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continuation of détente with warnings of what might befall the allies if they pursue Washington's "hostile" course. In a number of Western capitals, in fact, Soviet diplomats were privately promoting possible peace talks between Afghanistan and its immediate neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, and the possible creation of a "security zone" for the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf...
DIED. Thomas K. Finletter, 86, Wall Street lawyer and perennial Washington appointee who was instrumental in the expansion of the Air Force as a powerful arm of the U.S. military after its creation in 1947; in New York City. Finletter headed a commission on military aviation policy whose persuasive 1948 report, Survival in the Air Age, led to a tripling of the fledgling Air Force's size and to his appointment during the Korean War as the service's second Secretary. He advocated both high military preparedness and universal disarmament, arguing that "world peace and the security...
...other action, the council approved the creation of an Energy Mobilization Board, designed to coordinate the city's attempts at energy conservation...
Still, it is her genuinely unabashed love for modern poets and their work that pours through her writing. Vendler understands better than any current critic that every good poem expresses the delight of its own creation. From reading this collection of reviews, it's easy to think that Vendler smiles every time a new book of poems arrives at her doorstep. This excitement fills Part Of Nature, Part Of Us, and is virtually unparalleled in the field. One critic has gone so far as to call her "the legitimate successor to R.P. Blackmur and Randall Jarrell...
...Morgan's thesis, for he has no thesis, but relies on the simple value of a story presented objectively. Without a damning or praising conclusion from Morgan, the aspiring writer and the aspiring socialite can choose to admire Maugham's success or to discard him as incapable of true creation. Morgan's biography brings his life in focus with his literature, revealing how Maugham obliterated the fine line between his life and his work...