Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Groups sponsoring actions-and there is considerable overlap here-include the Harvard Faculty Against the War, a newly-formed group with about 40 unofficial members; the November Action Committee (NAC). an offshoot of last year's New Left caucus of SDS which was organized this Fall around opposition to war-related research and support for the NLF: SDS, organized around the old Worker-Student Alliance (WSA) caucus which recently voted to dissolve itself; the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC). which sponsored the November March on Washington; the Moratorium Committee, a branch of the national Vietnam Moratorium organized last October by Gene...
...Gerzon calls his generation the first generation of existentialists. It is a stripped-down existentialism, without much intellectual character, a shriveled offshoot of the mass media. Gerzon implies that anyone who listens to Dylan or the Beatles is an existentialist-although, he would caution, "not in the academic sense...
...student in Europe during World War I, Borges was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poets and Ultraism, a literary offshoot of Dadaism. Later, back in Argentina, he wrote poetry and essays for avant-garde journals, and edited anthologies of Argentine literature, including a book of detective stories. But it was not until the late '30s that Borges wrote Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, one of the first and perhaps best known of his short fictions...