Word: whither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country! in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" -Who said to her Jewish mother-in-law Naomi: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God [Ruth...
...Whither is God?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must...
...been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself could not really answer: "Why? How? Whither...
...Whither is God,' he cried. 'I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers But how have we done this? God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatest of this deed too great for us? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history hither to.'" But Nietzsche's madman...
...Whither Maternity? Biological science has changed this traditional concept of the human species, says Rostand. Artificial insemination raises the possibility that husbands separated from their wives for long periods may arrange to have them inseminated during their absence. This requires a change in laws that now permit a husband to disown a child that he could not have begotten in the usual manner...