Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carrington successfully concluded negotiations for the creation of a democratic Zimbabwe...
...successful St. Louis lawyer before World War II, Clifford was called to the White House in 1945 as assistant to Harry Truman's naval aide. He was soon named special counsel to the President. No less than Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Clifford was present at the creation of the policies and institutions that won the cold war: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Department of Defense, NATO...
...very fact of the debate is an indication of how little silence there has actually been. In four years at Harvard we have witnessed the creation of The Peninsula and the Lighthouse, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality and Defeat Homophobia, the revitalized Republican Club and The Rag collective...
...number of ideas, physiognomies and physical mannerisms on which they could draw has in theory been much smaller. Therefore, interpreting the inner truth of people on the basis of how they look or act is suspect: "A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations...
...painters of this myth were George Catlin, friend of the explorer William Clark and indefatigable painter of native tribes; George Caleb Bingham, that vigorous orderer of American genre scenes; the landscapists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran; and a host of lesser figures, who also played their part in the creation of a heroic imagery of national conquest. And here the difficulty rises, for Americans still wish to believe in the "historical" truth of their icons, which is what such pictures have become...