Word: spawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refusal of the DuBois Club to register as a communist-front organization has brought to public attention once again the unnecessary and unjust presence of the Subversive Activities Control Act. Passed in 1950 over President Truman's veto as the first section of the McCarran Act, the law helped spawn the McCarthy era. After that first blazing notoriety, it has proceeded through its numerous litigations in relative quiet; but the law is far from dead...
...nations are created so quickly and usually with such a lack of rational preparation that they spawn problems never faced by most of the older countries, which evolved their own nationhoods over centuries. The empire builders, for example, never were lashed by the obligation to improve the standard of living of those they ruled. Today the leaders of a new nation are soon in trouble if they do not do so-visibly and dramatically. They confront not one but several revolutions at once-political, economic, social, technological-and are thereby called on to make choices that Western statesmen never...
...literate, liberal French-speaking Walloons in the south dominated Louvain and built it into a university of international reputation ranking with Oxford and the top Roman Catholic University in the world. At the recent Vatican Council, the 13-man delegation of theological experts from Louvain was influential enough to spawn such wisecracks as "Vatican II? No, Louvain...
Cupped in a patch of wooded hills in Issaquah, Wash., some 15 miles southeast of Seattle, a one-story building rambles comfortably across a meadow. A clear creek ripples near by, filled at the moment with salmon heading upstream to spawn. There is an air of bustling activity about the place, a liveliness that is surprising because the rustic building is a nursing home. It is one of an increasing number that are teaching their patients to get up and live rather than follow the old nursing-home formula of lie down and die slowly...
Architects today have to design whole systems of buildings all at once, from civic centers to new cities. This calls for complex planning of functional interactions, social effects, and visual variety. Architecture schools which used to spawn endless distortions of Salisbury Cathedral and the Parthenon are now desparately seeking a more rigorous approach to urban design...