Word: birthrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOME PEOPLE HAVE lofty positions handed to them as part of their birthright. Others have to push aside barriers to be successful, keeping stiff upper lips through discouraging moments and elbowing their way through the tiniest openings. Unfortunately both of these types usually reach their promised lands at the expense of their humanity...
...pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself, and an archetypal quality that makes its hope seem universal, the natural birthright, sold again and again but somehow always recovered, of all the people of a constantly changing world...
Greece. The cradle of democracy exercised its birthright last week-end, voting by a 90 per cent majority to abolish the monarchy and replace it with a constitutional republic. Sound progressive...
...current ideological strife, the Old Testament acquires an applicability most have long given up suspecting. To take his own best illustration, Kolakowski turns the story of Jacob and Esau into a lesson on the ways of fabricating political truths. The naive realist who believes in the objectivity of his birthright cannot defend it against the pragmatic idealist who knows that truth lives in opinions, not in acts, and who can manipulate surrounding thought accordingly. Other tales Kolakowski investigates are those of Noah, Ruth and Cain. The subtitles suffice as index to the mind here at work. Respectively they...
...cent hamburger at the Waldorf, not having the time or energy to go back to Radcliffe and come back in time to report for duty. The Sheldons, the Shaws and all those fellowships that I have never been able to keep straight that were more or less the birthright claimed every spring by every male Crimson editor were of course something not open...