Word: begetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What we beget is like ourselves while what we make is not," Harrell said. "By virtue of their having been made, [genetically engineered or cloned offspring] would be less than human as we are less than God by our virtue of being made, and not begotten...
...would virtually serve as Gershwin's private playground and personal gold mine, from which the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants proceeded to extract all kinds of music, including, in one glittering shovelful, not just his famous Rhapsody but also a related song called The Man I Love. This would beget almost instantly a new kind of American song, exemplified by Porter's Night and Day and Richard Rodgers' My Funny Valentine...
...artist with whom virtually every other artist had to reckon, and there was scarcely a 20th century movement that he didn't inspire, contribute to or--in the case of Cubism, which, in one of art history's great collaborations, he co-invented with Georges Braque--beget. The exception, since Picasso never painted an abstract picture in his life, was abstract art; but even there his handprints lay everywhere--one obvious example being his effect on the early work of American Abstract Expressionist painters, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, among others...
...anyone whom he or she beget shall inherit this legacy and so be guaranteedadmission, even unto the hundredth generation," heconcluded...
...Washington, President Clinton was equally tough on the Palestinians. "There is no excuse and there must be no tolerance for this kind of inhumanity," he said, demanding "concrete steps" by the Palestinians to fight terror. But fearful that violence could beget more violence, Administration officials began to think something bolder was required. The President postponed for only a week a planned mission by Middle East mediator Dennis Ross--his first since last April--to regenerate confidence, and huddled with his security advisers to consider what else Washington could do to repair the diplomatic damage. "It's pretty clear," said...