Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regardless of any unprogressive attitudes at the Home, the children who live there are certain to benefit from the consistent affection they receive. In view of the extreme deprivation which it handles, the Italian Home does a fine job of providing needy children with a stable, protected environment.
Attorneys, in short, are more numerous than ever in the nation's history, and in many ways more powerful. Their increase in density, however, has not been accompanied by a proportionate increase in mass affection. To be sure, lawyers have never been terribly popular, particularly among philosophers and writers. Plato...
To be sure, a little electrical object that is expected to last for years may cost no more, pace President Carter, than a no-martini lunch for two. Yet the metal, unlike the meal, is an acquired object deserving of respect, even affection. It is a dismal comment on American...
Swados sadly indulges in a punitive blame game charging parents with a shortfall of love. Short decades ago, the family was a self-contained unit sustained by all of society. Today, the world invades the home, and luck plays a greater role than affection or discipline in welding family unity...
IN SPITE OF THESE structural weaknesses, the play contains many very moving and well-acted moments. The growing relationship between David and Saul that mixes rivalry with reluctant affection is subtly written and strikingly portrayed by Baxstresser and McDonough. Baxstresser's gender does not impede her portrayal of David; her...