Word: beget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which she speaks. It is a fundamental unrest that arises because a basic artistic philosophy-originally formulated by the pop artists-now produces increasingly sterile new work. None of the mutants of the virile genus popus-such as op or earthworks or photographic realism-seem sufficiently robust to beget new species in their turn...
...days ago the Vice President, in a discussion on the Middle East, wisely remarked that "arms beget arms." And yet he, like his opponent, still promises to give Israel the Phantom jets, claiming that somehow this will bring peace to the area. But as Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said before the United Nations General Assembly last Tuesday: "There is no such thing as peace by incantation...
...doubt for a dangerous decade. And as for the notion of Henry the Hot-Blooded-inspired by his succession of six wives-Scarisbrick tempers it with cool practicality. "Henry was probably neither a remarkably accomplished nor endearing lover," he writes, but simply a man driven by the "need to beget progeny in sufficient quantity to prove himself and assure his dynasty...
Hallelujah, Baby! Broadway frequently believes that it is more blessed to borrow than to beget, which is why so many musicals seem like retrospective shows of previous shows. Hallelujah, Baby! takes the standard saga of a showbiz Cinderella who wants a Shubert Alley marquee for her tiara and combines it with an up-from-wage-slavery plot dating from the social-protest '30s. The only novelty is that the protagonists are Negroes. While it affects to be a six-decade panorama of Negro advancement, the show is more like a petrified forest of liberal and sentimental clich...
...gradual change in nearly 11 of man's ways of looking at life, at war, at himself. Poverty and racial rejudice are obviously powerful incitements to violence, but so, he says, is the lassie American emphasis on getting head. The individualism and selfishness inherent in an acquisitive society beget a climate of violence, as does hypernationalism. A Sign for Cain will give readers a healthy dose of "the dignity of indignation," but it does not offer much hope that man will take the cure...