Sentences with word «seedbed»
The Court's religion jurisprudence was especially important, and indeed was a kind of seedbed for the new regime.
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Astronomers suspect galaxies began as accumulations of dark matter in the early universe that acted as seedbeds for normal matter.
The Viennese Actionists (especially Otto Muehl) embodied this to the extreme, while in New York Vito Acconci stirred the SoHo scene with his 1972 performance Seedbed, occupying Ileana Sonnabend's newly minted space at 420 West Broadway by spending two weeks hidden beneath the floor masturbating, broadcasting his fantasies about the gallery - goers via speakers throughout the space.
A legendary pioneer of New York's performance art scene — you may know him for his infamous 1972 piece Seedbed, which involved the artist doing unmentionable things beneath Sonnabend Gallery's floor — Vito Acconci has been working under the radar in recent years, primarily on experimental architecture.
Many processes which we now regard as quite natural and logical were mysteries to medieval man and consequently offered a ready seedbed for all kinds of explanations which depended upon intervention by some supernatural force.
One day in 1972, before he had a concept for his next solo show, Acconci found the word seedbed in his beloved thesaurus.
Uprooted from families and religious traditions, living in slums and at the mercy of criminals and sometimes of governmental predators, the urban poor are a fertile seedbed for evangelical proselytism.
Although the record of Protestants in relation to slavery and segregation is far from admirable, nevertheless, the Protestant conscience was a major seedbed of opposition.
But they can become seedbeds of creative thought and action for church members who desire to embody the vision and norms of faith in the policies and practices of their corporations.
It was based with the prominent Gay Liberation Front (an early Seventies seedbed of «Outrage», «Stonewall», etc.) in the Gay Community Centre at 98 Railton Road, London.
Merchants and shop people as well as peasants were involved, and they were to form a ready seedbed later when Tyndale's New Testament (1526) arrived in the country — in 1520 Tyndale was a mature student at Cambridge at a time when Luther's works were just coming on sale in the bookshops in the university town.
Growers may even want to adopt stale seedbed techniques and allow weed seeds to germinate so they can be treated prior to planting crops.
And then you have the benefits of a better seedbed from tilling the crop rows where you're going to plant.»
Compelling as his probing of the Giffords shooting is, Zoellner's greatest service here is illuminating the darkest corners of this sun - drenched seedbed of rugged individualism.
A pioneering gallerist, she took a daring approach — like mounting Acconci's controversial Seedbed — and introduced or gave early shows to major artists such as Carroll Dunham and Ashley Bickerton in 1980s.
And some got antsy and started reacting to the action, joining the Matteses» avatars atop a table as they posed as Gilbert & George and stealing looks at the illicit activity below Franco's Seedbed platform.
Tracing Acconci's early performances, the exhibition includes the now legendary Seedbed, 1972, during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor in a gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead.
The families, communities, neighborhoods, and schools that once served as seedbeds and anchors for personal and professional virtues are themselves in considerable disarray.
It is a «seedbed for [celibate] vocations.»
In his 1972 performance Seedbed, American artist Vito Acconci constructed a false floor in a New York art gallery and hid beneath it.
Leaving aside the family decisions upon which the Obama Administration appears to be more than willing to intrude or undermine, its protection and celebration of individual choice places it squarely at the front of the ranks of those who are assaulting the family as the locus and seedbed of responsibility.
I mean it was really the seedbed for what's going on in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, India, China.
For those inexperienced with running and voting for office, churches are a seedbed of civic activity.
Personally, I'm suspicious of most piety as either being a seedbed of hypocrisy or a distraction from matters of justice.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that Earthism is not a blip on the screen, but the seedbed of the future.
These implications of the unity of God were destined eventually to supply the seedbed for modem science.
The adult and / or youth choirs, small groups, Bible study groups, worship committees, or Sunday school classes are just a few «seedbeds» for this type of ministry.
Scripture is the seedbed of language of faith.
Further, I expect any conscientious Christian who knows how stories about the Passion of Jesus became, across two millennia, a seedbed for both theological anti-Judaism and ethnic anti-Semitism, to proceed here with infinite care — not with political correctness but with thoughtful accuracy.
`... At the very least, then, this is the seedbed for higher, intentional forms of ethical virtue, though these latter (with their complex forms of human intentionality and freedom of choice) are of a distinctively different sort from the prehuman varieties of cooperation, and can not in my view be reductively subsumed under mathematical prediction.»
[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....
Similarly, Muslim fundamentalism is distorting the face of Islam and giving the impression to the rest of the world that Islam, far from being the religion of peace, brotherhood and compassion which it can be, is simply a seedbed for violence and terrorism.
She turned to a different source as the seedbed of the new form of myth, and that was the human historical scene.
It was their one place of public, corporate self - affirmation, the seedbed of whatever training was available for black politics and organizational development.
Multiculturalism is a force which Malik feels emphasises difference, creating the seedbed for the alienated who go on to become radicals or even terrorists.
He decided to write his speech, titled «The Seedbed,» to remind everyone «of America's science legacy; and as an appeal to advance all that this legacy can do for the nation's future.»
Titled «The Seedbed,» * I offer the speech as a reminder of America's science legacy; and as an appeal to advance all that this legacy can do for the nation's future.
During the centennial of its charter, President Kennedy addressed the Academy membership, noting, «The range and depth of scientific achievement in this room constitutes the seedbed of our nation's future.»
About 400 light - years away, this system is surrounded by a large amount of gas that served as a seedbed for these stars.
Kolderie argues most recently in his book, «The Split Screen Strategy: Improvement + Innovation,» that we must have a chartered sector that is open to innovation not only for the sake of those schools but also to serve as the seedbed for new models of schools and new approaches to teaching and learning.