Word: inventer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late years Jefferson said The Declaration of Independence was intended to be "an expression of the American mind." He said no books or pamphlets were turned to in writing it, and that he did not feel it a part of his charge to invent new ideas entirely, or to say anything new that had not been said before...
...took an awful lot of arrogance for Arnold Schoenberg to dismiss the historical tradition of music and invent an entirely new one. Of course there are uses for the twelve-tone system. For a composer like Alberto Ginastera, who always sets extremely violent texts to music, the system becomes rather appropriate. There is also Alban Berg, especially in Lulu, and Luigi Dallapiccola. To me, these three are the most impressive twelve-tone composers. My feeling is that the twelve-tone system is incapable of expressing anything but violence...
...point of the experiment, De Bono explains, is that since there is no such thing as a dog-exercising machine, the children had to invent one from their own resources rather than rely on adult-imposed knowledge and experience, which often block creativity. The humorous but logical drawings, he believes, provide further proof that children are good at generating original ideas. The results are so refreshing, in fact, that many adult readers will surely be tempted to try designing a dog-exercising machine themselves...
...business losses really hurt California's Governor Ronald Reagan. "Listen," he told David Frost on television, "after what I took the last time, I don't care what exemptions I've got. I'm going to pay some tax in 1971 if I have to invent it." There have been other financial drains, the Governor said. When he and his wife Nancy moved out of the Governor's mansion in 1967 because they thought it was a fire trap, they rented a house for $15,000 a year. "The law says the state...
Throughout, Wouk confronts great personages headon. His research has been massive; yet a sense of strain afflicts conversations with the likes of Hitler, Göring and Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There...