Word: outgrow
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...remain are dealt with by an adroit blending of taste and truth, e.g., "Demeter had been rather wild as a girl, and nobody could remember the name of Persephone's father; probably some country god married for a drunken joke at a harvest festival." For young classicists who outgrow such simplicity, the author forehandedly has prepared two thoroughly adult volumes: his unsurpassed dictionary, The Greek Myths, and his fascinating and much argued-over book of theorizing about the origins of myths, The White Goddess...
...ignore Seeger's politics, because his art is an expression of his total outlook; but there is no harm in assessing his politics and enjoying his music. Even when he is performing before an audience of children, he speaks and sings with a lyricism that is difficult to outgrow...
...could have foreseen what would happen when 16th century astronomers looked out at the solar system and decided that the sun does not revolve around the earth. But out of that bold assault on old and in correct ideas grew the modern science that has enabled man to outgrow his planet. In the past three years, man's knowledge of his universe has increased more than in the centuries between Galileo and Sputnik I. What tomorrow may hold overwhelms the imagination...
...ascendancy is not other living creatures but mechanical monsters of his own creation, argued Mathematician Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. Dr. Wiener, inventor of the word "cybernetics" (science of control mechanisms), and No. i cybernetic philosopher, solemnly warned that computers and other educated machines may yet outgrow man's control. He rejected the common and cheerful opinion that machines can never have any degree of originality. "It is my thesis," said Wiener, "that machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers...
Unfortunately for Woman!, San Francisco's women were no more helpful than their husbands. Junior Leaguers worried politely about whether they were supposed to learn the feminine graces at home or in school; a suburban housewife announced grimly that "by golly, my husband is not going to outgrow me." Anthropologist Margaret Mead finally arranged a truce in CBS's planned skirmish between the sexes by explaining that women are becoming less feminine, men less masculine, and that both sexes are "behaving more like people." Whatever that meant, Dr. Mead happily added the observation that there will probably always...