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...saddest thing in life," runs an old Japanese proverb, "is to be born a woman." In the feudal days before MacArthur, it contained more than a grain of truth; Japanese women then were the merest chattels, they had no civil rights whatever, and their menfolk seldom bothered even to address them by name. But in one sweep of the pen, the U.S.-dictated constitution of 1947 swept aside the centuries of tradition and placed the women of Japan-legally at least-on an equal footing with...
...main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
...crackdown, the new regime found it had more public backing than it had dared to hope for. In overthrowing Mossadegh and calling their Shah back from his brief exile, Iranians seemed to have given their own patriotism a bracing shot in the arm. "There is an old Iranian proverb: 'There's no room for two kings in a kingdom,' " one Iranian explained. "It was either the Shah or Tudeh. And the people chose the Shah...
Celtic Queen. "The Greeks wrote all the histories," says an academic proverb, "and gave themselves all the breaks." During their peak, the Greeks described western Europe as inhabited chiefly by unseemly savages. This ancient triumph of propaganda was somewhat damaged recently when Rene Joffroy, professor of philosophy and an ardent archaeologist, dug into a Celtic tomb near Chatillon-sur-Seine in eastern France...
...article related to business should be placed alongside business news instead of appearing in sections so remote from the business articles that some of the most constructive comments in American periodicals are seldom read'. . . The topic selected, "The Case for Free Trade," was particularly timely, for the ancient proverb, "Where there is no vision, the people perish," holds truer than ever today...