Word: creators
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey machine-tool maker whom he had met on a vacation at Lake Champlain, N.Y., to put up another $50,000. Today Duncan, at 37, is G. & W.'s president and day-to-day administrator; Judelson, 36, is executive-committee chairman and production chief. Bluhdorn is the creator of new mergers and markets...
Lolita has been good to her creator. The market in Nabokov, sluggish until she appeared, has been bullish ever since. In collaboration with his publishers, Nabokov has sensibly kept the post-Lolita market well supplied. The Eye is the latest reincarnation from Nabokov's past, translated from Russian by the author's son Dmitri (Harvard...
From its first appearance in the Harvard catalog in the fall of 1941, Perry Miller's English 274, "Romanticism in American Literature", supplied its creator with a splendid vehicle for his own explorations. From a student's point of view, the course was successful as few courses ever are, and its graduates are now among the most distinguished scholars in American studies, holding professorial chairs from Harvard to Berkeley...
...newly formed Soviet government, and as a commissar he rapidly demonstrated that he was a divine idiot. He called for "revolutionary painters" and peppered the local party press with commissarty exhortations. His vision of the revolution was to make "ordinary houses into museums and the average citizen into a creator." Imagining that all the house painters of his native town were repressed artists, he spurred them on to decorating its drab buildings with folk imagery. When his superiors arrived from Moscow to find the walls covered with Chagallesque cows sailing through the sky instead of the standard portraits of Marx...
Harvey's creator is 33-year-old Ernest Pintoff, a gifted animator who put outsize satirical bite into such prizewinning cartoon shorts as The Interview and The Critic. In his first full-length feature in color, Pintoff has harnessed live actors to a dead horse. Harvey Middleman exudes a bogus air of originality, but is seldom funny enough to make its simplicity seem unpretentious...