Word: creators
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playwright with a knack for titles (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis); and Leslie Ann Garis, 24, Vassar graduate and granddaughter of the late Howard Garis, creator of the Uncle Wiggily stories; in Riverside, Conn...
...creator has become an anticreator and his greatest achievement is to discover how he can leave out some thing that has never been left out before," noted disenchanted Cultural Guardian Joseph Wood Krutch, 74, in the American Scholar. Take Twiggy, for example-"a fashion sensation because all the secondary sexual characteristics of the female were totally lacking." And the Twig is only part of the pattern, Krutch said. "The miniskirt is halfway to becoming a non-skirt. When it has reached its entelechy and is then designed to accompany a topless blouse, the anti-costume will be complete and just...
...dead, how can man prove that he lives? Rational proofs cannot convince the skeptic; the Bible alone is authority only to the convinced believer; the demythologized universe no longer points to an unseen creator. One approach to an answer that appeals more and more to modern Protestant thinkers is the undeniable evidence of religious experience-the intuition men have of their dependence upon God. The popularity of this insight, in turn, leads back to the study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the theologian who first developed it as a basis of Christian faith. After a generation of neglect, Schleiermacher, who died...
...both the Enlightenment and Germany's Romantic revival, Schleiermacher saw clearly that the traditional bases for faith in God were gradually being eroded by man's intellectual advances. Rationalist historians had begun to cast doubt on the authenticity of Scripture; scientific discoveries made the hypothesis of a creator God seem less and less necessary...
...creature is stronger than his creator, or so Jean Anouilh would have us believe in The Cavern. The characters insist on their own independent existence, and the unwary playwright suddenly finds himself part of the play, seduced by the vitality of his own inventions...