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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fundamental Precept...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Novel into Film: A Critical Study | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...Consort. More than almost any other public office in all the world, the job of consort to a reigning Queen is what its holder chooses to make it. The vast, amorphous amalgam of protocol, precedent, precept and law which is the British constitution contains no passages outlining a consort's duty. Most of the consorts who preceded Philip did just what they chose. With a prosperous kingdom of his own, Philip of Spain only occasionally visited the British realm of his wife Mary Tudor, who reigned from 1553 to 1558. Methodical William of Orange (1689-1702), declaring firmly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Husband | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks for most Hindu religious leaders when he says: "By all means discuss your faith with us, share your views and your experience with us, but India would like to suggest that the true missionary is one who, by both example and precept, helps the other to live his own faith more perfectly, and not to forsake to the missionary's faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Can Christians Be Hindus? | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...worship of nature is as old as Chinese history. Confucius, the great precept-giver on manners and morals, said as early as 500 B.C.: "The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills." Lao-tzu, an elder contemporary of Confucius, added another dimension, proclaiming that underlying nature was an all-pervading spiritual force, which he called Tao, and likened to water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...making priests' robes, Tessai was apprenticed in pottery-making, was encouraged in his scholarly interests as a youth by Rengetsu, a Buddhist nun famed for her verse. But from then on, Tessai was largely self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings and maps for the government topographical office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Japanese Master | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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