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What is creativity? Nearly everyone recognizes it when it comes in the form of Albert Einstein, or Sigmund Freud, or James Joyce. Some even acknowledge it in the discovery of a new plastic, the invention of the safety pin, the unexpected observation that turns an ordinary conversation around an unusual corner. But what is this process which leads people to new insights and fresh perceptions, this force which takes the mind down unexplored paths, this ultimately renewable human resource? What is creativity...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Creativity: Exploring the Unexplainable | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

Earlier, Lee had worried about his team's weakness at the middle weights and his fears were realized Friday as Cornell rolled up five consecutive victories, including pins at the 150- and 158-lb. divisions before Sean Healey's pin at 167 temporarily stopped the Big Red advance. The Crimson sophomore, wrestling in the next higher weight class from his accustomed slot, registered the fall only 1:50 into the first period...

Author: By Sam Soutter, | Title: Matmen Crushed by Cornell, Columbia | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Cornell then took the next two matches but it was Harvard's Jim Phills who had the last laugh. The sophomore heavyweight took only 22 seconds to take down and pin his Cornell counterpart...

Author: By Sam Soutter, | Title: Matmen Crushed by Cornell, Columbia | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...chance of delivering that hug was made possible by the patience and persistence of the outgoing President and his tireless diplomats. They labored through marathon meetings in Washington and Algiers, as other key actors in the drama, including turbaned Iranian clerics and pin-striped international bankers, met in London, New York, Tehran and Washington. As the negotiations intensified, the gulf between the U.S. and the ever unpredictable government of Iran, ruled by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, an 80-year-old mystic leader, had looked too wide to be breached readily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostage Breakthrough | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

They are promoting the buttons with radio spots and a comic strip ad in Spanish and English that shows youngsters debating dating strategy. In case a boy doesn't get the message, one wag suggests that the coed can always remove the pin and make her point in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds & Trends: Jan. 19, 1981 | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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