Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vague and emotional concept of Arab unity, influenced by 19th century European nationalism, held that the Arabic language, Arab ways, and a common past of glorious medieval empire should unite 70 million Arabs from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The intellectuals' enthusiasm sparked a political awakening in which Islam played a big part. Wherever this Pan-Arab idea came to life, it ran up against the Western imperial domination of the day. The foreigner who drew his arbitrary borders across the body of the Arab lands, who exploited the riches of the Arab soil and what lay beneath...
...security." Nuri let the powerful sheiks get richer and richer, but in recent years had seen to it that 70% of the vast oil royalties (some $300 million a year) went to the well-conceived dams and construction programs of the national Development Board. In time, Iraq's common man stood to gain more than the impoverished fellahin of Nasser's Egypt. But the cry of independence and Arab unity was irresistible...
Though 31 states do allow some degree of privileged communication to a clergyman, the right is still not recognized as a rule of common law. British judicial opinion since the Restoration has been almost unanimous in denying it, mainly out of ancient enmity to the confessional system of the Roman Catholic Church. But many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right...
Freud discovered mythology and meaning in the dream, explained Hamlet and charted the mind by means of Oedipus. Jung wrote of archetypes, of the recurring myth in art, of the common symbols of man. There is a racial consciousness, a spiritus mundi--human history is community property among the family of artists. But the word has supplanted the Idea...
...such shrewd tactics, the company, which the Tishman family controls with nearly 50% of the 1,940,000 shares of common stock, netted $4,033,975 in 1957, although the net profit for its first half of this year is down to $1,250,000. Tishman's goal is to build enough properties so that most or all the firm's profits will eventually come from rentals, make it immune to ups and downs in the market for new building. Says Norman Tishman: "When the day comes that we don't care whether we make a sale...