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...pretty? By providing kids with too much too early, we are destroying the sequence that nature so cleverly devised. At that age, boys and girls, but especially girls, are blessed with innocence and candor. The world benefits from these qualities and so do the youngsters. Remember the Chinese proverb: Let the children rule and man becomes a fool...
...lawyers feel the same way about the competence of self-helping laymen. Most would agree that certain procedures, like changing a name, are simple enough for people to handle on their own. But when it comes to more complicated matters, their views are still summed up in an old proverb: "He that pleads his own cause has a fool for his client." Says San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli: "If you can take out your own tonsils and deliver your own child, then you shouldn't be concerned about going to court without the aid of a lawyer...
...common denominator of all these unholy alliances is the old Arabic proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The Saudi princes fear Khomeini's antimonarchist Islamic revolution, so they side with Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein wants to succeed the Shah as the principal power in the gulf, so he seeks to destroy what is left of the Shah's military machine and ingratiate himself with the conservative gulf states, who then might accept Iraqi hegemony. Syria's Assad feels threatened by Iraq so he allies himself with Iraq's enemy, Iran. Assad strings Gaddafi along on the mostly...
...almost always leads to things like that. It would be difficult for any poet, laureate or not, to surpass the Englishman Samuel Carter's "Paean" to the London sewer system: "Magnificent, too, is the system of drains,/ Exceeding the far-spoken wonders of old/ . . . Well did the ancient proverb lay down this important text/ That cleanliness for human weal to godliness is next...
...music, choreographed the dancing and starred in two hits with his company of 25. One show was an olio of jazzed-up Jewish folk songs and dances. The other, a folk-rock musical called A Black Bridle for a White Mare, got its title from an old Yiddish proverb: "Poverty suits a Jew like a black bridle on a white mare." Sherling has other works in preparation but, he says, finding space and support is becoming difficult. "It's as if the authorities had let a genie out of the bottle and don't know what...