Word: outgrowth
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...sterile silence that surrounds them at the book's opening to become strong characters in their own right. The world has forced them into sterility, and Milkman's recognition of that fact alters his view of the world. The apparent perversity of Milkman's mother is the natural outgrowth of her solitude; his father watched his own father die, and he cannot free himself of the bitterness. None of the characters in this novel are completely normal, but Morrison's presentation of how they have been warped by their world is compelling and beautiful...
...notion that if something is said, it is done. Thus the government seriously asserts that there is no discrimination based on color, but only separate development, a necessary chance for all groups to safeguard their identities. Race discrimination, of course, is minutely written into the statute books-an outgrowth of the Afrikaners' urge to codify. A prominent member of a South African foundation declares with an almost palpable wink: "We could strip apartheid legislation from the books and yet nothing need change. We could accomplish all the same things by local regulations or custom...
...been hearing for 40 years." But he also feels that, as in the U.S. South, accommodation is possible. Similarly, he finds a parallel between dissidence in Russia today and the U.S. black activism of the early '60s. Says he: "In a sense, the Russian dissidents are a normal outgrowth of increasing education and affluence among the Russian elite. As Russian society begins to develop a greater consumer orientation, they're going to have a human rights explosion, just as we had in this country...
...spirit of the American South is an outgrowth of the trauma experienced by the U.S. in the '60s and early '70s. Long the nation's moral whipping boy, the South gained its amnesty during a period of racial tension, assassination, war, urban unrest, youthful alienation and political misconduct that left no American unaffected...
...with Lester Maddox last week in an attempt to gain inclusion in the crucial TV debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter, his action was not entirely unexpected. McCarthy, 60, has, since his 1968 campaign, made the quixotic gesture his hallmark. Indeed, his challenge over the debates was an outgrowth of his most recent attempt to reach the White House-via an unlikely independent ticket...