Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view, is an outgrowth of "the stupendous hyping of art as a blue-chip investment." Not only has promotion made art a prime target for razor-wielding burglars, Hughes argues: "It has also made it impossible for most people under 35 to have an aesthetic experience without considering the price of the works they...
Someone asks whether the union is in part an outgrowth of the women's movement, since three-fourths of the group District 65 seeks to unionize are women. "No," Strunsky says. "We didn't grow out of a women's group...
Three Plays from The Towneley Cycle. These may be the best things playing all month for those with a serious, and especially an academic, interest in theater. The Towneley Cycle is one of those compendia of medieval religious plays halfway between ritual and modern drama. This production is the outgrowth of David Staines's English 211 and represents one of the few attempts to bring performing drama within Harvard's academic orbit. The English department should sit up and take note. Two of the three plays that make up the program were translated into modern English by students...
...most independent--is likely to be raped. Every man--your father, your lover, your brother--is capable of rape. Rapes, they say, are any acts of sexual intercourse forced on one person by another. And rapes, they say, are not committed only by deviants but are a natural outgrowth of the sexual patterns we are all thrust into...
...freedom and those who carry on her dialectical struggle now. Angela Davis is a remarkable woman--her autobiography attests to that--and it is no mere historical coincidence that a collective struggle of diverse groups united to oppose racism and political repression has sprung up as an outgrowth of her personal struggles and under her leadership...