Word: creators
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every esthetic in my opinion is based on doubt," he said. "Doubt assures the necessary distance between the creator and his own work. Without this distance we lack self-judgment." Boulez cited the example of his first place for two pianos, in which he tried completely to negate expressionism. "By being purely automatic, relying on purely rational relations, I found the necessity of personal intervention. When you are not strong enough to destroy yourself., you cannot find another life...
Some church groups hold that gambling is sinful. Newspapers often rail against its iniquities: the Detroit News recently warned that legalized gambling can only create a great "assemblage of shills, touts, confidence men, fast-dollar operators and freebooters." Politicians piously denounce gambling as a creator of corruptness. Yet for all that, legalized gambling is booming across the U.S., and for a simple reason: the revenue-hungry states have discovered that gambling, though it may be wicked, produces money that is as good as gold...
...will "attract all the least energetic minds in the University," the creator of the course, William W. Howells '30, professor of Anthropology, said yesterday...
...obsolescence; housewives have "help" when they have it at all, and are diplomatic about giving orders (not "Clean up the living room," according to one domestic counselor, but "Let's clean up the living room"). One of the most fictional characters in modern fiction is Jeeves, and his creator, P. G. Wodehouse. mourns the extinction of that noble breed of "butlers who weighed 250 pounds on the hoof, butlers with three chins and bulging abdomens, butlers with large gooseberry eyes and that austere butlerine manner which has passed so completely away...
Lonely Sleep. Hedda, in fact, sees her role as "The Dutch Aunt" of Hollywood-as much a creator as a chronicler of the news. If there is more of an air of self-congratulation about her book than there was about Lolly's ("It's a terrible book," said Lolly candidly of her own, "I wrote every word of it"), it is perhaps because it was written with the help of an assistant named James Brough. Hopper-Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly...