Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The intensity of both your devotion to scholarship and your affection for Harvard are well-known to your friends and associates," the letter said, adding, "I am grateful for what you have done and I am grateful that you are staying."
The problem with Miller's version is that it is too single-minded. In his program notes, he quotes three sources to explain his interpretation. The first, a selection from Frazer's Golden Bough, describes a mythic religion in which the priest-king, to gain his office, must slay the...
In three areas of traditional family life there has been little erosion: reproduction, child care, affection. As a matter of fact, many experts believe that the affections! function is the only one left that justifies the continued support of the family as a social institution. As "community contacts" become more...
But the insistent demand for affection without the traditional supporting structure has dangers of its own. The pioneering sociologist Edward Wester-marck observed that "marriage rests in the family and not the family in marriage." The corollary used to be that the family existed for many practical purposes beyond love...
A related danger is to romanticize and sentimentalize the family. From the Greek tragedians to the modern psychoanalysts, men have known that the family, along with being a source of immense comfort, is also a place of savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says...