Word: fruition
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...Rita, during a late night chat predicts that by the time all of her friends are thirty, each of them will be "incredible" and "pretty fucking amazing." By the end of the play that prediction has not come to fruition, and it is implied that their situation is not going to be much better when the women are forty. The travails of these young women trying to carve a place in society for all future women are difficult, and sometimes a bit depressing, but they are still a pleasure to watch...
...society's new meeting place, the penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what would be even more visually encompassing than to have a complete room walled by Rothkos...
...Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco (Little, Brown; 384 pages; $24.95), Michael Orey, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, describes the American journey from a public attitude of "Tough luck, buddy" to the group-grievance activism of the '90s, brought to lucrative fruition in lawsuits--by Mississippi, Minnesota and 38 other states--that have extruded from the tobacco industry the promise of close to $250 billion, to be paid out over 25 years...
...Everyone spoke. It was a powerful feeling,"Sheerr says, her eyes brimming with tears again atthe memory. "It was the emotion of saying we didit. We brought this to fruition...
Last year we spoke about the problem of apathy in the undergraduate population-the tendency of Harvard students to ignore current social issues; or worse, to speak of change but to do little about ensuring that any of their far-flung goals came to fruition...