Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violently cross-grained man. His life belonged as much to the history of publicity as to the history of literature. He was a splendid writer who became his own worst creation, a hoax and a bore. He ended by being one of the most famous men in the world, white-bearded Mr. Papa. He stopped observing and started performing. He sentimentalized and pontificated and lied and bullied...
Capitalism's promise, by contrast, is the creation of a more robust economic life, and the record of delivery is good. "Private enterprise is now the universal belief," says Bernardo Villegas, chief economist for the Center for Research and Communication in the Philippines. Leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America are increasingly turning to free markets to develop impoverished economies and catch up with the rest of the world...
Decorating the park will be the winner of a Cambridge Arts Council contest. They chose the creation of local artist Carlos Dorrien, who made a granite sculpture "shaped like an imaginary cornerstone, like an archaeological remnant," said Lori Poklop of the Cambridge Arts Council...
...council pulled out of a 1981 deal with a development company that would have guaranteed the site ("political vandalism," in Wanamaker's view), the Trust sued. Late last month the sea of troubles finally ended in an out-of-court settlement and a go-ahead for the re-creation of the round, handcrafted oak theater. All's well that ends well...
...gloried in the Jeffersonian eloquence, then turned away from the tasks it prescribed for them. Too many Americans still do that, says Malone, who is 94, and spent 50 years compiling his six volumes on Jefferson, 5 1/2 of which follow the events that came after the moment of creation in July 1776. Common sense about the things that still plague mankind flowed from Jefferson's extraordinary pen for half a century after that date in papers, letters and laws...