Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there's Brown. Don't get me wrong, I love bears. I've outgrown Teddies, but watching Yogi and Boo Boo going after "pic-a-nic baskets" in Jellystone Park is still...
...years, starting with The Dreadful Lemon Sky (No. 16, 1975), McGee has had troubles of his own. He has become increasingly morose, and the cases he handled were no real challenge. In the middle of the journey the Big was "embedded in a life I had some curious way outgrown. I an artifact, genus boat bum, a pale-eyed, shambling, gangling, knuckly man, without enough unscarred hide left to make a decent lamp shade. Watchful appraiser of the sandy-rumped beach ladies. Creaking knight errant, yawning at the thought of the next dragon." John MacDonald acknowledges that his hero "could...
...Editor Phillip Moffitt, having now reached the average Esquire reader's age (the 30's) is sure he knows exactly what his generation wants: less of the old smart-ass Moffitt's generation, he says, saw the emptiness of their parents' lives but have now outgrown their own cynicism. Economically, "they assume they can make it if they work," says Moffitt. So "after survival needs, they want to know who they are, they want more meaningful vacations, careers and relationships." They also want to be "better consumers." (That oldtime Esquire merchandising again!) Moffitt is hardly nihilistic...
Things happen, of course, but only up to a point. The professor, perhaps inevitably, finds himself outgrown by the Iowa maiden, who does not share his reticence about reaching out for life. The Washington careerist, "bright but not too bright" and full of muddled optimism, glimpses the fact that the convergence theory of history, as applied to the evolution of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., is bad news because it is turning the world into a wall-to-wall bureaucracy. "We are not completing anything," the Soviet says. "And we are not being used up in order for anything...
...deeply rock has penetrated and modified American popular culture. At the core of the vast rock audience is still the generation that first heard the music, that danced to it, changed with it, married to it, and died to it in Viet Nam: a generation that has never outgrown, will never outgrow the music. A group called the Showmen said it best, and most simply, in a tune that Heroes uses as a theme: "It Will Stand...