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...Matern also survives, much diminished in spirit by his awareness of the guilt of other Germans. He becomes a fanatically vengeful de-Nazifier, whose method is to spread his own gonorrhea among the wives of men on his private list of war criminals. But two diseases cannot beget health, and this does not ease his soul. Can he himself be guilty of something? He is harassed by a dog who has begun to follow him like a conscience-a magnificent black German shepherd who once belonged to Hitler and who is, by significant chance, the grandson of a bitch Matern...
There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of parternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity. Had my father lived he would have lain on me at full length and would have crushed me. As luck had it, he died young. Amidst Aeneas and his follows who carry their Anchises on their backs, I move from shore to shore, alone and hating those invisible begetters who bestraddle their sons all their life long...
Kreyche has received dozens of inquiries and letters of congratulation from Catholic educators across the U.S., praising De Paul's new philosophy program. The response, he hopes, signifies an aggiornamento, or updating, in U.S. Catholic philosophy, to match the aggiornamento in theology. Otherwise, Kreyche says, "we would soon beget the nonprofessing professor, the nonintellectual intellectual, the non-Christian Christian. Without academic freedom, neither the student, professor, nor the college could fulfill their respective natures within the church...
...reports, it is all "quite simple." Beyond all doubt, the sonnets are to Southampton. W. H. was, clearly, William Harvey, Southampton's stepfather, who, when the young earl's mother died in 1608, inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival...
...Five Cargill heirs hold top jobs in the company today, but the current president is the first up-from-the-ranks outsider, Erwin E. Kelm, 51. With a sharp eye for the grain that can turn to gold, Kelm enthusiastically favors selling wheat to the Reds. "Trade tends to beget trade," he says, "and this might well help the relationship between the countries...