Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The hajjel (pronounced haghl) is a tough game bird common in Syria. It looks like an American bobwhite without its topknot and is about four times larger. As a boy Kalaf used to hunt the hajjel and he still has great affection for the bird. Says he: "By golly, this...
I'm a man of great affection,
Bambi is the brown-eyed, white-scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory...
For nine years he worked at his exacting Tokyo job, which he conceived of as a great opportunity to bring about genuine Japanese-U.S. friendship. His appeal was to the peaceful Japanese whose interests were in international trade and, therefore, amity. He won the high personal regard of countless...
U.S. opera-lovers remember Singer Flagstad with reverence and affection as the greatest Isolde since Nordica. She returned to Norway in April 1941 for a summer's visit, then broke a two-month silence to announce that she would remain there until the war ended. More silence followed, punctuated...