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...There are differences even in religion. Most Arabs belong to the dominant Sunnite branch of Islam; Iranians adhere to the smaller Shi'ite sect...
...that, in the words of The New York Times, "the choice on which union, if any, ought to represent pickers of grapes and lettuce and is not for the Times to make, or Mr. Meany, or for housewives in supermarkets from New York to San Francisco. That choice should belong to those who work in the fields and it should be made in an atmosphere free of physical or economic coercion...
...better than being entirely off-camera. Mary was soon interviewed for the role of Danny Thomas' daughter in Make Room for Daddy. It was an epochal audition. Thomas turned her down gently: "With a nose like yours, my dear, you don't look like you belong to me." But a few years later, when Thomas was casting The Dick Van Dyke Show, he called for "the girl with the three names and the smile." By then Mary's marriage was all but finished; it was finally canceled in its eleventh year...
Ethical Teacher. In treating landscape as a paradigm of human fate and mood, Friedrich became one of the few major painters in the German romantic movement. The issue then, as posed by the philosopher Friedrich Schlegel, was straightforward: "Do not animals, stones, plants, stars and breezes also belong with mankind, which is merely a central meeting point of countless varied threads? Can mankind be understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued...
...refashion its female student body in the perfect image of a wife. It is inevitable that whoever sits in judgment will select students according to those qualities he or she most esteems. But at present, I think that female applicants will fare better if the eyes of the beholder belong to someone likewise born female...