Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Science is the outgrowth of questions about the world: it's about why some things are smooth, rough and hard, and others melt," Layzer continues. "The way it is taught today turns off many creative people who are best equipped to be serious students of science...
What opportunities for wistful gallantry this presents the actor who plays Cyrano, and how tenderly Depardieu seizes them. His peasant frame is the perfect support for that nose, which seems less a theatrical device, more a natural outgrowth of Cyrano's spirit than it does when puttied on more lissome leading men. Depardieu's Cyrano has a slowness and stubbornness that make one realize how willed his dashing public personality is, how much it is a way of deflecting attention from a self he finds shameful. This imparts a particular poignancy to the final sequence, in which he at last...
...says that research and teaching are equally important aspects of research universities. Good teaching, he says, is normally a natural outgrowth of research, since it constantly expands and renews both field and teacher...