Word: fruitions
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...historic theme of learning through suffering, with the lesson that the just order of the community is a matter of reason. Thus self-control begins to replace violence as the benediction of the gods. The just, peaceful order of the community accompanies the reconciliation of male will with female fruition. Aeschylus introduces the distrust of violence. Eventually, the gods will dissolve sufficiently so that the power of action gives way to that of moral perception. Battlefield gives place to City. The great transformation of the heroic from the Hiad to the Orestcia to the Elizabethan Renaissance, was from Fate...
...former FBI men, had succeeded in bringing about 50 grand-jury indictments of Cosa Nostra members and corrupt public officials during the past four years of his term. But he added that "the irrelevancies and inadequacies of the criminal justice system" made it difficult to bring these indictments to fruition...
...women's liberation movement [Nov. 21] of which I am a part is not militant or segregationalist. With the encouragement of our husbands, we are working to eliminate discrimination, create the opportunity for women to develop their intellect to its full fruition, and encourage women to make their own decisions governing their destinies. The Aunt Tabbies not only prefer the security of their pseu-doexistence, denying their talents and creativity, but fight tooth and nail to prevent any progress. Hopefully, your article will pry open some closed minds...
...Eugene Carson Blake, LL.D., general secretary, World Council of Churches. Few men have sought with such vigor to bring to fruition the one visible universal church...
...naturally dwells upon the anguish of the long Nigerian period as the turning point of Cary's life. He etches in the hostile social and literary milieu in which Cary's vocation stubbornly flourished-where a stronger talent in a weaker man might never have come to fruition. In the long run, isolation proved a blessing. For Cary had to sweat over his craft far from the corrupting literary ambience that often sustains but modishly distorts young talent. London was full of Weltschmerz and fashionable reliance on canned Freud and Frazer. Cary was unaffected. Literary myth seekers...