It was a classic display of the traits that distinguish Gates from his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld: caution as opposed to brashness, attention more to particulars than to grand theory and a view of history as a set of warning bells, not an outmoded mind-set to be transcended.
But Clinton was relying on an outmoded idea of populism.
Maybe that's an outmoded idea that won't survive the election cycle.
Interpreted the right way? Are they timeless verities or — more logically — reflections of an outmoded culture and obsolete mind-set?
Laura is the author of The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World.
The "face of slowness" in Italy is a negative, outmoded one in Bruno's mind; to him the clichés of the simple Italian way of life are really just inefficiency masquerading as charm.
In part, this is the result of an outmoded view about the separation of mind and body.
One image that comes to mind is the soldiers sent to die in outmoded frontal assaults against machine-gun embankments in the First World War.
One Polish communist, aged 84, "puts me incongruously in mind of a minor character in one of Tolstoy's novels - an outmoded Enlightenment rationalist who has outlasted his time, and who continues to putter in his private laboratory, ignoring the world which has overtaken him, performing his pointless scientific experiments with great clarity of mind and sturdy cheerfulness".
Jacksons puts visitors in mind of "Are You Being Served?", a 1970s sitcom that mocked a way of retailing that was outmoded even then.
A Jewish proverb coined by the late food writer Josh Ozersky comes to mind: \u201cThe fat is the meat, and the meat is the vegetable.\u201d The stuffed helzel, perhaps the most outmoded dish on offer, is a sort of oversized dumpling made from two pieces of fatty chicken skin, stitched together with string, filled with a paste of flour and schmaltz, and fried until crisp.
