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...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...
...Whither Mackerel? The Fulhams believe that the New England fishing industry can solve many of its own problems-if only it will. New England fishermen, like others on both the East and West Coasts, have been hard hit by heavy foreign imports (which amounted to 35% of the U.S. consumption in 1956), consumer apathy to fish (per capita consumption:11 lbs., v. 160 Ibs. for meat), and the high cost of operating, repairing and replacing boats. But many of the industry's troubles are the result of antiquated ideas and unwise practices. Says Vice President Jack Fulham: "Just...
...elements. Rubin points out perceptively that Wolfe's attitude toward those rare and brief moments is closely related to Wordsworth's "intimations of immortality," and like Wordsworth, Wolfe found that as he grew older those moments came upon him less and less. Several times he closely echoes Wordsworth's "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/Where is it now, the glory and the dream...