Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bristle with formulas and coercive epigrams: "Form follows function," "The house is a machine for living in," and so forth. Mies van der Rohe's "Less is more" was prefigured by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos' belief, published in Vienna in 1908, that ornament was crime: "We have outgrown ornament!" Loos exclaimed. "See, the time is nigh, freedom awaits us. Soon the streets of the City will glisten like white walls, like Zion, the holy city, the capital of heaven! Then fulfillment will come...
...Having overthrown feudalism and slavery and then outgrown its own personal and familial form, capitalism has evolved a new political ideology, welfare liberalism, which absolves individuals of moral responsibility and treats them as victims of social circumstance. It has evolved new modes of social control, which deal with the deviant as a patient and substitute medical rehabilitation for punishment. It has given rise to a new culture, the narcissistic culture of our time...
...proposed bills have become law -and negative in his approach to legislation. Says Ravenel: "The pattern of Thurmond's positions has been to resist things like integration, things like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version of the Labor Law Reform bill, which is highly unpopular among most South Carolina voters because they believe it would promote unionization of the state's textile and other industries...
...must never have an impresario again. We've outgrown the need." The Met is still in the process of proving that thesis...
...infected hosts and then repeatedly transferred in artificial culture media they often rapidly lose virulence. We now know the mechanism by which this improved adaptation to the new environment occurs, at the expense of decreased adaptation to the old one (i.e., loss of virulence): the original strain is gradually outgrown by the progeny of are mutants that are better adapted to the new culture medium (i.e., that can grow slightly faster, or can grow slightly longer with a limited food supply...