Word: birthright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need for 'salvation.' No original, inherited sin stood between the individual and his destiny ... No asceticism was required to open a hidden gate to purity: for purity was man's birthright, and sin meant no more than a lapse from the innate, positive qualities. . . . Was not perhaps this teaching . . . responsible for the emotional security I had so long sensed in the Arabs...
...Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 21), staged some familiar oldtimers, but its new numbers were largely disappointing-and at times, plainly dull. Then, last week, Sadler's brought on another new one, a bucolic, mythological tale entitled Sylvia. "Magnificent," cried Critic Walter Terry in the Herald Tribune. "The ducal birthright of the ballet is made manifest." "A sumptuous extravaganza," announced John Martin in the Times. "An exemplary performance...
...Cantillon Told them, "has sold out to commercialism and allowed her God-given body to be exploited in the cheapest of ways, destroyed the home and the real meaning of family life." Moreover, she has "robbed man of his birthright by wearing the pants in the family...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Birthright, with Jackie Cooper, Everett Sloane...
Tidelands is as fighting a word in Texas as Alamo was more than a century ago. Texans feel that the U.S. Government is rustling them out of their birthright. Texas was a sovereign nation which entered the Union voluntarily, and by the terms of the annexation agreement of 1845, she was allowed to retain control of her public domain, which, Texans say, stretches 10½ miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Other coastal states claim the offshore oil under general provisions of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that Texas tidelands as yet have produced practically...