Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edge of the discipline." He was writing one of those infinitely detailed studies of the inhabitants of a New England town in the late 18th century, their working conditions, their attitudes, their sex lives. Himmelfarb asked how he connected his work to the major event of that period, the creation of the U.S. "He conceded," she writes, "that from his themes and sources -- parish registers, tax rolls, census reports, legal records, polling lists, land titles -- he could not 'get to,' as he said, the founding of the United States. But he denied that this was the crucial event I took...
...contras as a fighting force are the creation of this United States foreign policy. Peace in the region can only come if all parties recognize the illegitimacy of these rebels and allow the Nicaraguan government to grow and work with its bordering nations in peace...
...joys of creation and camaraderie are essential to Mastroianni's career. "When I make films, I am absolutely happy," he says with a grin. "That's why I make so many films. This is a most beautiful thing, to be with 60, 70 people on a set and to make stories. It helps me to act. I work seriously but never take myself seriously. I want to enjoy myself -- really enjoy -- like a child. Because all actors are children. If it is a limit that an actor is still a child, it is also a miracle. And when the film...
...forget Cartier-Bresson's debt to Andre Breton, surrealism's chief standard-bearer and truest believer. Breton and his circle of poets and artists wanted to revolutionize both consciousness and society through the purposeful absurdities of the unconscious. To dislodge conventional habits of mind, they practiced unpremeditated methods of creation, "unguided" sketching and automatic writing. Moved by their example, Cartier-Bresson realized that his Leica was the most automatic art instrument of all, one that could make split-second images that owed much to chance and much less to calculation...
WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives, citing waves of pollution that forced some East Coast beaches to shut down this summer, yesterday agreed to the creation of a special commission to study and recommend changes in federal oceans policy...