Writers like Wright, Ellison and Hurston, and thinkers like Locke, Du Bois and Garvey created notions of spiritual recovery, cosmopolitanism and political agency that led us to President Obama in the White House.
This helped create the notion of the disc jockey as artist and live remixer.
"It helps create the notion that other parties share some of the responsibility," he said.
Amazon.com did not create the notion of buying things online, but it has done more than any other retailer to move the experience into the mainstream.
Asked in the interview if he liked Mr. Bruno, the governor paused, then said: "I've always tried to create the notion that, hey, we gotta get along.
"Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand and some others want to create this notion that I moved to New York with the intention of running for office and I live this unbelievably luxurious life," he said, his green eyes earnest.
France, a relatively big country which once did its part to create the notion of the rights of man, has announced that it will no longer co-sponsor a resolution censuring China for its human-rights abuses.
Over time, Callahan, who is forty-four, started to resemble a particular kind of seventies folk-and-country artist: a songwriter like Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson, who engaged in both pop and politics, and who helped create the notion of a steady-handed American song that was rooted in verse and chorus but was open to all sorts of subject matter.
But to crystallize essences in this way, to create the notion of floweriness, rather than to describe an actual flower, demands an extremely subtle and complex use of all the resources of language, and Mallarmé devoted himself during the rest of his life to putting his theories into practice in what he called his Grand Oeuvre ("Great Work"), or Le Livre ("The Book").
To be sure, Scroggin did not create the notion of controlling beyond the grave, something rich people have done throughout the ages.
