Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancients is, of course, Shaw's metaphor for a nobler human development. But for this metaphor to be effective, the audience must will it into life, like a sort of metaphysical Tinker Bell. Faced with an imagined future where imperfect infants are put to death, where sex is outgrown at the age of four and where life's true realm is pure, icy mind, most playgoers simply will not aspire to it. Not in a thousand years...
...would be greeted anywhere else in America by bags of chicken feathers and cauldrons of tar. In a TV summer season stolen by Armstrong and Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite, Laugh...
...increasing demand for imported dog food. Japanese dog food is more expensive, and is largely made of fish, thus likely to cause acute cases of canine halitosis. Over the past several years, pet owners have turned more and more to cheaper brands from abroad -and the demand has outgrown the government-regulated supply. If the ministry fails to respond, the dogs may well go to the country's leaders once again...
...created an ordered series of lines, and sketched in sun-and moonlike heads to represent the first two primal people. Poet André Breton, spiritual spokesman for surrealism, once called Miró "the most surrealist of us all." It is a title that he himself feels he has outgrown. "I am a free man, I hate labels," he protests. "I am not a cyclist with a number on my back...
Decline & Rescue. One of America's first planned cities, Williamsburg was laid out in 1699 by Governor Francis Nicholson as a replacement for the outgrown capital of Jamestown. It thrived until late in the Revolutionary War, when the rebel government, fearful of a British attack from the sea, moved the capital inland to Richmond. With only the College of William and Mary and a state insane asylum left to support the town, Williamsburg slowly declined into a sleepy bastion of seedy gentility...