Word: whithering
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...Every definite image in the mind is steeped and dyed in the free water that flows around it. With it goes the sense of its relation, near and remote, the dying echo of whence it came to us, the dawning sense of whither it is to lead. The significance, the value, of the image is all in this halo or penumbra that surrounds and escorts...
...boffo production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in the Yeats translation. They had already staged Cocteau's Orphee at their 60-seat Philadelphia Theater for Children, an abandoned slum building. Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind all this is 23-year-old Christopher Speeth, the only white teacher at 76-year-old Arthur School. A lawyer's son, Speeth grew up in Cleveland with a bewildering variety of talents. He began studying the violin at 3½, won numerous musical...
This fate, and Heath's attitude toward it, was prophetically expressed when in 1934, as a teen-age member of his school debating society, young Heath proposed the motion that "This House Deplores the Whither-ance of Britain" (as usual, he won the debate...
Negotiator at Work. To prevent the whither-ance. or withering, of Britain today, Ted Heath, though not an economist by vocation, has made himself one. Even the "high priests," as Britain's negotiators call members of the nine-man Common Market Commission, have ruefully acknowledged error when Heath has challenged an imprecise interpretation of the Treaty of Rome, which is virtually sacred writ on the Rue des Quatre Bras...
...playing midwife to a new generation of moral muckrakers with a newspeak all their own. With indifferent success, these unHidden Persuaders have warned The Status Seekers and The Organization Man against the perils of The Power Elite and The Image Makers in The Self-Conscious Society. Latest to ask "Whither America?" is ex-Rhodes Scholar Daniel J. Boorstin, 48, who teaches U.S. history at the University of Chicago when he is not lecturing in Asia, the Middle East or Europe (he is now at the Sorbonne...