Word: catalysts
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...Beast From The East: You have to wonder about the Hockey East conference. In 1988, Hockey East was looking to end two years of playoff impotence. The top-ranked Maine Black Bears would be the chief catalyst...
...Jack Borden. Ten years ago, while hiking, Borden gazed up and felt the jolt of an epiphany. "I had never really noticed the sky before," he recalls, "and its beauty, majesty and fragility just overpowered me." Expose children to this great expanse, he reasoned, and you have a thematic catalyst that spans the three Rs, encompasses the arts and sciences and engages the mind in a voyage of self-discovery. Borden, now 59, decided to take his inspiration to local schools. By 1984 he had founded a nonprofit organization called For Spacious Skies and had begun publishing a 32-page...
...zeitgeist, Gitlin devotes considerable space to the often uneasy relationship between radical politics and radical culture during the period. He argues persuasively that the New Left, the handful of committed student radicals who started SDS and similar groups in the early years of the decade, were the core and catalyst of the mass youth movement that powered the great civil rights and anti-war demonstrations of the mid and late Sixties, as well as the tribal orgasms of Woodstock and the Summer of Love...
...catalyst in this. We will go throughwith this," said Frank Weissbecker, director ofdining hall services...
...probably wouldn't be doing this ((negotiating with Congress)) but for the events of the past week. It is clear that they were the catalyst that was needed to bring about face-to-face discussions on debt reductions...