Word: birthright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...
...editorials in the adjoining column invite comparison. No serious minded Harvard undergraduate can read them without asking his introspective self, "Am I an athlete--or an aesthete?" When he has decided whether the shelf-mark or the shoulder-pad is his birthright, he will undoubtedly realize that for a long time he has been very unfair to his antagonists, the shoulder-pads or the shelf-marks--whichever it is that...
...fabric of occidentalism. In pushing strident commercial claims, the possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed to organize the tremendous forces of the East into a unanimity of hostility. A mess of potage for today is not worth a birthright for tomorrow. If the West can never understand the East, it must at least stop to calculate the powers it is arousing and the eventualities it is creating...
...that men whose minds are open to Science can remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration. But it was not the motes in their brothers' eyes which inspired the opening sermon delivered by Rev. Paul revere Frothingham Boldly he analyzed: "We want a divine inheritance and a spiritual birthright. To be willing to exchange it for a mess of scientific pottage indicates and Esan-like yearning for the wilderness of doubt. . . . "The Unitarian doctrine has effectively softened and finally transformed the stern theology of New England, as it was meant to do; but let us beware if it softens...
...sold his birthright for a bawdy prize...