Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes of many observers, the council seems finally to be coming to fruition. The first session saw a well-mannered power struggle between contending ecclesiastical viewpoints, and the gradual unfolding of progressive strength; the second was bogged down by papal indecision and defensive parliamentary maneuvering by Curial forces. But by the end of the third session's second week, the bishops had taken 37 votes on sections of the 219-page schema De Ecclesia (On the Church), rushed through discussion of two other chapters, started debate on a schema outlining the duties of bishops, and drafted declarations concerning religious...
Speaking in New Orleans in 1959, Architect Walter Gropius, then 76, sadly noted: "I have been 'nobody's baby' during just those years of middle life which normally bring a man to the apex of his career, when seed sown earlier should have come to fruition." True enough, the man who in 1919 founded the Bauhaus, and who later transformed Harvard's Graduate School of Design into one of the finest architectural schools in the U.S., had been asked to build comparatively little. But for once in his life, Walter Gropius turned...
...final volume of his trilogy, de Gaulle describes the fruition of his year labor-the restoration of as a strong and independent power. But the very success of this endeavor signaled the end of , as "the exclusive regime of the parties reappeared...