Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women's liberation movement [Nov. 21] of which I am a part is not militant or segregationalist. With the encouragement of our husbands, we are working to eliminate discrimination, create the opportunity for women to develop their intellect to its full fruition, and encourage women to make their own decisions governing their destinies. The Aunt Tabbies not only prefer the security of their pseu-doexistence, denying their talents and creativity, but fight tooth and nail to prevent any progress. Hopefully, your article will pry open some closed minds...
...Eugene Carson Blake, LL.D., general secretary, World Council of Churches. Few men have sought with such vigor to bring to fruition the one visible universal church...
...naturally dwells upon the anguish of the long Nigerian period as the turning point of Cary's life. He etches in the hostile social and literary milieu in which Cary's vocation stubbornly flourished-where a stronger talent in a weaker man might never have come to fruition. In the long run, isolation proved a blessing. For Cary had to sweat over his craft far from the corrupting literary ambience that often sustains but modishly distorts young talent. London was full of Weltschmerz and fashionable reliance on canned Freud and Frazer. Cary was unaffected. Literary myth seekers...
...like the epic hero who must follow his own destiny to its fruition, Axel carries each sequence to a definite visual and dramatic conclusion. At the outset King Sigvor, who has slain their father, invites the sons of Hamund to make peace. Axel gives us separate sequences of them dressing their wounds, bathing, and drinking together, and ends with a slow pan across all the men sleeping side by side...
Whatever his ultimate commencement status, Saturday night marked the peak of Levin's undergraduate career: the fruition of a long love affair with Mozart's music accorded a spontaneous standing ovation by the audience. And that is something very few soloists beside the Archbishop of Canterbury can count as part of their memories of Cambridge. One only hopes that circumstances do not abort Levin's promise even earlier than that they did that of Mozart...