Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increased sense of community and pride among students is an offshoot of the New Radcliffe. Physical changes have taken place in the past two years-besides the addition of men, Currier House, resident tutors, workshops, House seminars, even grills-which have accompanied, and to some extent, prodded subtler changes in the thinking of many Radcliffe undergraduates...
...immense objet trouvé. Thus his radical invention of environmental art. Schwitters' Merzbau (or Merz-house) in Hannover was the first great work of its kind, integrating assemblage, painting and architecture. Its convolutions reached through two floors and four rooms of Schwitters' home, with a separate offshoot in the attic. It was as if he had deposited the cells and memories of his own brain, wrought out in a coral of bizarre objects, cabinets and boxes, on the walls of a maze...
...offshoot of the New Uni-versity Conference, a national group of radical university professors and graduate students with offices in Chicago. The Harvard group has been meeting informally for several months now. "We have as yet no formal structure," Ackerman said...
Demos announced that KNOW, an offshoot of the Radcliffe alumnae organization NOW (New Opportunities for Women), had proposed to the Harvard administration that an expert steering committee with an adequate budget be set up to consider the problem of day care...
...increase of about two or three. I saw six juncos, an increase of two or three, and seven white-crowned sparrows, an increase of five or six. There were ten pine siskins-down from 18 last year. I say those great conservationists-the U.S. Department of Agriculture and their offshoot, the Forest Service-have done their job well, if "conserving" means wiping out the birds...