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Since there is a possibility that the man-being, a sublime and God-begotten "Son of Heaven," already exists, the ritual of last week should have been accompanied by loud banging of brazen instruments and public demonstrations. Because the Court is in mourning for the Emperor Hirohito's late father (TIME, Jan. 23) these festivities were omitted...
Lancelot is speaking of his only begotten son, a natural one who was more or less forced upon him by the first Elaine. There was never a fonder father nor prouder, nor ever one more vexed by his offspring's priggishness. For when Galahad left Camelot to seek (as legend soon had it) "the holiest thing in the world," and hence the Grail, it was not so much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father...
Thunder last week shook the abode of the Sultan of Sulu at Jolo, Philippine Islands. The great Moro chieftain has no children begotten of his loins, but for years he has reared three adopted daughters, the children of his brothers, and the three little princesses? Tarhata, Emme and Dayang-Dayang?have dwelt in the security of his harem. In the excess of his affection the Sultan actually had Tarhata spend five years at the University of Illinois, and she returned home with bobbed hair...
Shelley's lines and a single sentence from the book explain Dr. Drinkwater's selection of a title: "It is the conflict of Byron, the essential poet, with this other Byron begotten by society upon his weaknesses, that is really the leitmotif of his story...
...student has been welcomed, officially and academically. He has been told, formally and informally, "when" and "where" and if he is a Freshman "how". The old student, astute upperclassman, that he is, full of the wisdom begotten by experience, is beginning to be seen about the Yard,--now that the hand-shaking is over. . The college is settling into its stride...