Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is neither her literary style - classically chaste in the presence of agony - nor her Christian conscience that gives this book its delicately fierce power. What makes A Guard Within a rarity of its genre is this: in her consuming (but unconsummated) affection for her analyst, Sarah Ferguson expresses a...
The guest of honor at the head table had barely finished his spareribs when he was introduced by Republican Congressman Tim Lee Carter with a ringing declaration: "I shall work for his nomination in 1976 with all my strength!" The audience responded with applause and cheers at last week'...
The inscription on the framed photograph of Milwaukee Bucks Center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reads: "For a true friend in all seasons." The legend on the picture of Bruce Walton (Bill's brother) says: "Maybe it's corny, but I love you." The object of such unabashed affection is...
There is a growing suspicion, too, amply borne out by these three books-one Victorian, one turn-of-the-century, one from the great Depression-that a special truthfulness resides in pictures produced by a photographer who confronts his subjects steadily and holds them in affection or awe.
Julia Margaret Cameron was a Victorian of great eccentricity, some means and considerable connections. She was born the year of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and did not take a picture until 1864, when her daughter and son-in-law gave her one of the earliest models, which consisted...