Word: creations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much of modern entertainment is meagre, vulgar, and meretricious. Its primary effect is the debasement of taste, the creation of false standards of value, the blunting of the capacity to find strength and happiness in the ordinary course of life. Literature is public property, can become a common body of experience. . . . Modern youth are moved, not by ambition, but by anxiety. The great stories recreate powerful examples of human thought and conduct-show principles in action...
...much had Russia accomplished by the great ruble reform (TIME, Dec. 22)? Ever since Lenin decreed the creation of a nonprofit society in Russia, peasants have made trouble and speculators have made profits. Last week, hard on the heels of a reform designed to squelch troublemakers and profitmakers, both were busy...
...beyond it. But just what meaning the rest of the universe had for this particular thing only this particular thing could decide and then only when and as it came to be. Each being, according to Whitehead, made itself be what it was. Each was an adventure in self-creation, an adventure which looked backwards for material and forwards for guidance, but which was finally performed in the solitude of absolute privacy. This was true both of those actual occasions we locate in men and of those we locate in stones or chemical compounds. We are all, the living...
...actual occasion exists for but an atomic moment, a short stretch of time which cannot be subdivided. It takes the whole of such a moment for an occasion to make itself be, and when that moment is over the occasion passes away. Perishing is thus the inevitable accompaniment of creation...
...warpath to halt the whites. Often he traveled with only two companions, but, Boston gentleman that he was, always carried calling cards. He learned to eat boiled dog and to like raw buffalo liver, and discovered that the noble savage of Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was a library creation. Parkman thought Indians "not much better than brutes...