Word: outgrowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting up campaign schools and importing officials from the national headquarters to lecture. Says he: "We're getting away from the post-office and patronage crowd. There were a lot of Republicans in the South who didn't want the party to grow because it might outgrow them." Under Chapman, South Carolina Republicans are running their first major candidate for the Senate since Reconstruction: William D. Workman Jr., 47, a widely known, highly respected syndicated columnist and pro-segregationist author (Case for the South), who is seeking Democrat Olin Johnston's seat...
...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...