Word: spawn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most difficult, most meaningful experiments, the counter culture must refuse official legitimacy and easy publicity, for they will certainly lead to quick vulgarization. The free universities, for instance, have to refuse that absolute corrupter, academic credit. The communes have to decline the slick publicity which will no doubt spawn Communal Weekends at posh resorts. Horny house-wives are already flocking to places like Esalen, looking for miracles and a good...
...quiet hedge: the committee that is to search for the new professors will be half student and half faculty. The tacit understanding seems to be that students won't be saddled with any professors they find unbearable. Considering the inevitable objections that any overt policy of "student control" would spawn, the report's minor equivocation seems justified. JAMES M. FALLOWS
THIS monster of a land," he wrote in 1962, "this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm...
John Ernst Steinbeck always did have a talent for enlargement. Yet when he died of heart disease in Manhattan last week at 66, Steinbeck left behind a body of novels, short stories, plays and film scripts that were less a spawn of the future than a moral-and often moralizing-record from his special compartment in the nation's past...
Brotherhood would spawn the crisis for the Negro politician. As the races slowly mixed, the politicians' positions would disintegrate. There would be less need for black leaders as such; the roles would largely disappear, or at least, evolve. Could the Negro politician adapt to the change, and expand his base of power...