Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcoholics Are Made. Though many other factors are often involved, Dr. Richardson blames much alcoholism on parents who weaken their children's egos by withholding needed attention, affection and approval-or by overdoing it. How parents fail:
The Golden World. Soon Q "set out a quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall...
Affection v. Appetite. The story of Reynard has been variously interpreted. Thomas Carlyle called it "a wild parody of human life." Medievalists have seen in it a parable of the struggle between church and state. But plain readers will always love Reynard simply as a prime deflator of stuffed shirts...
"You know how it is," Reynard confided to Grimbart. "One cannot always keep himself as holy as if he lived in a monastery. The fault is not always with me. Take, for example, that confounded Hare. The rascal was as fat as butter. I loved that Hare but he would...
Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening...