Word: begat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff points to the clubs' history of racism and anti-Semitism as proof of the ills begat by elitist institutions. There is no denying the inglorious past of the clubs, but again, I do not hear anyone suggesting a boycott of Harvard, which itself took part in propagating the same parochial atitudes...
...scholar of the Enlightenment era, tends to view his subject as a direct descendant of 18th century atheists and rationalists like Voltaire and Diderot. Therefore it is with deepening irony that the reader discovers that by the 1920s, psychoanalysis had begun to resemble a religion. Freud's apostles begat apostates who in turn spawned heresies and a bemusing number of therapeutic sects, each claiming to have a piece of the true couch...
...railroad begat hotels, including, naturally enough, Flagler's Royal Palm. By 1896 the city of Miami was incorporated, and, shortly after, racial segregation became a fact of real estate development. Blacks found themselves on the other side of Flagler's track with their backs to the Everglades; they would not return to the shoreline until 1945, when the municipality granted them use of a small beach accessible by boat. Despite their significant numbers (about 20% of the city's population of 372,000, compared with upwards of 60% for Hispanics), Miami's blacks get a small part in these books...
...absence of parental models. Too old for her age, and too young, one high school girl reads Ingenue, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and the Bible alone at night in her room. Why the last? "Because I'm nervous, and it helps me sleep. All the trees and fruit, the figs, begat and begat going down like the multiplication tables...
...title of founding father, however, belongs to Honey Fitz's son-in-law Joseph Patrick Kennedy. Once he makes his entrance as Harvard man, Rose's suitor and shrewd young banker, he dominates the narrative. Joe and Rose begat Joseph Jr., John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean and Edward. There are some formidable characters here. Rose was defender of the faith and the stoic keeper of the hearth and appearances. Joe Jr., killed during World War II on a near suicidal bombing mission, was the pick of the litter. Vivacious Kathleen ("Kick") died in 1948 with her foolish lover...