Word: invention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community is shown too in the constant plea that the family must bear the burden of teaching the culture. In a real community, there is an economy, with its crafts and its ideas. The shape of the community makes the culture evident. But, lacking this strong community, kids invent their own, reviving the feudal code of Alfred the Great, marking out safe territories, and making provision for special classes of revenge...
...those dollars, had treated Cuba like a dance-hall girl - "and shame, as Marx pointed out, is a revolutionary sentiment." The beards must win, concluded Sartre, and their shrewdest strategy is in making the U.S. the villain: "If the United States did not exist, perhaps the Cuban revolution would invent it; for it is the United States which conserves the freshness and originality of the revolution." Not to be outdone, Paris' weekly L'Express commissioned one of France's ranking Left Bankniks for similar duty. It sent 25-year-old Françoise Sagan, confector of adult...
...cracked two eggs into the potion as if following a recipe by Gayelord Hauser. Worst of all was the lighting, which was so murky that it came close to achieving Richard Wagner's stated ideal: "Now that I have created the in visible orchestra,* I would like to invent the invisible stage...
...Nerve. "I'd still like to invent the products," says Fairchild, "but the business has become too big for that." Fairchild believes that it is not enough simply to develop a product that is slightly better than a competitor's. He had no interest in bringing out a movie camera that was only an improvement on cameras on the market. But when his re searchers came to him with the idea of a home movie sound camera, he gave en thusiastic approval. "Fellows from the camera company came to see me and said they could produce...
...first American novelist to enjoy literary success in Europe was an ex-naval officer from upstate New York named James Fenimore Cooper. His father, a rich landowner, founded Cooperstown, N.Y., where Abner Doubleday was to invent baseball, but where Cooper made an even greater invention-the noble red man and the heroic myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale...