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Such notions violently divided the university's 17-member philosophy faculty. "It is selling your philosophical birthright for a mess of existential pottage," protested the Rev. Joseph Delia
...nomination. Goldwater had long been critical of the civil rights bill, arguing that brotherly love cannot be legislated into the hearts of men. Of course, the bill attempts to do no such thing; it merely seeks to ensure to all Americans the equality under the law that is their birthright. In recent days Goldwater had indicated that he might wind up voting for the bill if it was amended according to his tastes. But that did not mean he would support cloture. He now answered the roll call with a brusque...
...Know Thyself." Boston Hematologist Dr. William Dameshek of the Tufts-New England Medical Center pioneered the concept of autoimmune disease. It has long been accepted dogma that in ordinary healthy immune reactions the body is using a birthright of every living creature. This is a set of biochemical sentries which raise an alarm when the body is invaded by a foreign substance, especially a protein, so that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will...
...watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through the forest and chalked the highest hardwoods. Not long after the oxen in jangling chains shafted road and tore the earth as they pulled the felled trunks to the water.... But the stream endured that too, it was granted one last fringe of privacy...
...wonderful article on Mr. Burton. Whenever was such a birthright sold for such a mess of pottage...