Word: originated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another impetus to aggressiveness is an intensifying rivalry between the pugnacious A.F.T., a 130,000-member trade union affiliate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and the N.E.A., a self-styled professional organization whose 987,000 members include administrators as well as teachers. Tracing its origin back to the creation of the Chicago Teachers Federation in 1897, the A.F.T. was for most of its history one of organized labor's less effective branches. Teachers generally felt superior to a blue-collar approach, and the union itself was rocked during the '30s by Communist infiltration, which was eventually eradicated. Under...
Metaphysical Mystery. The reader is told nothing of Y's origin or personality; he is an abstraction. There are no women in the novel, and sex is never mentioned. Just before the trial scene, however, the book offers a few clues to Y's wherefore. Y admits to himself that he sought out the Henhouse; that he is responsible for allowing it to become a prison; that when he visualized himself as another Hen, what he really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must...
...quick world of pop music, imitation is the sincerest form of ambition. Less than a year ago, a team of wily promoters ran the Beatles through a Xerox machine and came up with the Monkees (Time, Nov. 11). Musically, the Monkees were and are a dull mutation of the origin of the species. No matter. Mass TV exposure and dubbed-in accompaniment lifted their first recording-Last Train to Clarksville, an innocuous ditty dashed off by a team of songwriters during a 20-minute coffee break-to the top of the charts. Their second album, More of the Monkees...
...prime point of suspicion for the origin of the flames was still the environmental control system (ECS), which furnishes a pure-oxygen atmosphere to the cabin interior and which has a potentially volatile coolant running through its pipes. Experts were arguing anew the pros and cons of a more stable, two-gas atmosphere in the capsules...
...study of the origin and development of the universe and its members...