Word: birthright
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...marchers, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, belong to Israel's Gush Emunin (Group of the Faithful), who take Jehovah's commandment from the Book of Genesis with fanatic literalness. To them, it means that Jews, as Abraham's descendants, have a God-given birthright to the West Bank of the Jordan. For it was at Bethel that the Lord is said to have commanded Abraham...
Joplin's musical genius was enormous and precocious. He was born in 1868 at Texarkana into a family that took music as its birthright. The father, a laborer, played the violin; the mother sang and picked banjo. Joplin started out on the guitar and bugle, but at age seven discovered the piano and was soon teaching himself to improvise...
...20th century wore on we became more and more a nation of birthright Americans. The proportion of native-born Americans increased every year. While 85% of the population was native-born in 1890, the number was 93% in 1950. In the familiar illogic of nationalistic pride, birthright Americans-here not by choice but by chance-began to insist that there was some special virtue in their nativity. The American spirit seemed to be changing from The World Turned Upside Down (a song of the Revolutionary period) to God Bless America...
...Radcliffe Institute, with its library and Fellows, is of established importance in the development of our sense of a women's culture. Our history is an affirmation of our birthright; our culture is the base from which we build. The work that the scholars and artists of the Radcliffe Institute are doing is and should continue to be supported and funded by women. Money from Radcliffe's endowment pays for women to study and develop our culture. As we support them, we grow ourselves...
...member of BIRTHRIGHT, a prolife, alternative-to-abortion group, I was appalled to read of the refusal to baptize Nathaniel Morreale because his mother supported the establishment of an abortion-information clinic. Father Roussin and Monsignor Meehan have failed to grasp the basic moral premise of the prolife philosophy: the child, born or unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always...