Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exists at all is no less a miracle than Watts's riotless history in the two intervening years. Perhaps even more of a miracle is Dr. Elsie Giorgi, the dark-haired, 56-year-old dynamo who conceived the center and fought it through-despite threats of violence-to fruition...
...certain important aspects of this activism, though born in other classes, have come to fruition in this one. What was most significant about the commitment and involvement in the class of '67 was not so much the range or depth of participation -- which, after all was a characteristic of activism throughout the sixties--but rather the sense of frustration and impotence which it produced...
...Brien study group-has some chance of fruition. The initial reaction from Congress, the postal unions and major postal users was generally favorable. President Johnson has accepted O'Brien's blueprint, at least to the extent of testing the wind, and last week appointed a commission to study...
...Groschen. The festival is the fruition of a decades-old urge of Karajan's to present Wagner's great cycle with absolute control over all the elements-a Ring that he could wrap around his little finger. His home town of Salzburg was the obvious setting, with its magnificent Festspielhaus. But Karajan was unwilling to ask the Austrian government for a single groschen of the customary state financial support; his official relations have been strained since 1964, when he quit as director of the Vienna State Opera because of "bureaucratic interference...
...matters, primarily through the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Howe's energies in recent years had been concentrated on civil rights problems. The scholarly analyst of the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution was also a founder of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee, which sought to bring to fruition the paper rights granted by those amendments. In the summer of 1965 Howe spent his vacation in Mississippi trying civil rights cases for the Committee...