Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brilliant American icon gets overtaken from time to time by his own apparent incoherence, his strangeness. He kept minutely detailed account books, for example--he was an obsessive record keeper who made daily notes on everything from barometric readings to the progress of 29 varieties of vegetables at Monticello--yet he somehow lost track of his debts and died bankrupt. The historian Paul Johnson has catalogued a few of the inconsistencies: Jefferson was an elitist who complained bitterly of elites; a humorless man whose favorite books were Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy; a soft-spoken intellectual sometimes given to violent...
...rent control also accelerated the process of gentrification that has overtaken Cambridge, and broadened EFZ's task...
...will only make fans bemoan the status of the other songs all the more. Songs such as "Undisputed" and "Tangerine" sound more like parodies of "Prince" songs than melodies in their own right. These tracks serve as poignant reminders to former and current Artist fans that talent has become overtaken by image in Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic...
Students and some administrators are thinking aloud about dramatic changes for the Loeb Drama Center. A mere four undergraduate productions appear on the Loeb Mainstage, a space originally endowed for student use but overtaken by the American Repertory Theater (ART) in 1980. Even the black-box Experimental Stage (the Ex) at the Loeb, which hosts a different undergraduate production almost every weekend, turns directors away because there just isn't enough space on the calendar...
What if Alexander had died at Granicus? Goodbye to all the conquests of Alexander the Great, says Princeton historian Josiah Ober. The Persian Empire would have overtaken the known world. The great promise of Hellenism would have lost its way; the growing Roman Empire would have atrophied; Judea would have remained a backwater, Jesus merely "a local religious figure," and Christianity and Judaism insignificant provincial oddities. There would have been no need for a Martin Luther, no Reformation, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Western culture...