Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the CRR's creation in the late 1960s, students have boycotted the body, saying that its jurisdiction is not clearly defined and that the University has called on it to quell activism...
More than two years after its creation, Cambridge's civilian police review board still is not functioning as the watchdog of this town's controversial police department, members of the City Council charged this week...
...songs," Byrne observes. "As long as I have an outlet for the other things I want to do, usually I am really happy to work within the band form." But Byrne's breakthrough with True Stories may tip the balance. He is reading books like Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle and The Epic of Gilgamesh, brainstorming on a new movie. In one way or another, every rock singer wants to be Elvis Presley. But here, all of a sudden, is one who can take a cut at being Orson Welles. Glass thinks "the Talking Heads will go on," but adds...
...said "Go West, young man." He uttered a sentiment along those lines that was later paraphrased into immortality. But Greeley did found the Tribune in 1841; his thundering editorials against the spread of slavery helped set the climate for the Civil War; he was a prime mover in the creation of the Republican Party. Greeley's death in 1872 might easily have been followed by that of his now leaderless Tribune...
...desire for success, Axelrod says that his main goal is to communicate to listeners, not make the Top 40. "People think you have to degrade your intellectual standards to appeal to the average man on the street," he says, describing his belief that this attitude is responsible for the creation of "music that just becomes a form of mental masturbation...