Word: ungrown
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...jubilant; in fact, everyone is distressed. Julian's wife and sisters somehow know that they have lost him now that he has found his feet; his ungrown-up dependence on them was their happiness, his money spells their insecurity. They also know, learn, or are told many other things-for example, one of Julian's sisters has always had an incestuous love for him. It is she, acting through the simple-minded wife, who viciously contrives to get Julian back with them on the old terms. But they are not the old terms. Blindman's Buff...
Finest example of a garden ungrown is the Harvard Film Service, which has been running under its own power since 1934. Although the H.F.S. can, from the outside sale of films and the rental of projection equipment, eke out its own living, its sources of potential value to the University are being wasted through the indifference of officials. Unlike Dartmouth and Minnesota, both of which provide budgets, Harvard is not yet sold on the usefulness of a department of visual education. Thus, the Service runs on precarious finances, since its income is impossible, to estimate beforehand and the fixed sums...
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