Word: affectionate
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That portion of affection and generosity is being toasted with a self-congratulatory high visibility these days. The condition also beguiles with a spray of mad moonlight and a whiff of tidal air. The latest expression of the baby boomers echoes in the surfeit of blossoming tummies, tired legs and...
McLaughlin sounds as though he's exaggerating, but his affection for the Crimson-coated concertizers is sincere. "I don't think they get as much credit as they deserve," he insists. "I have the greatest respect for them." So much, infact, that this week he sent the band a thank...
In 1950 Mao Tse-tung's new Communist regime tried to expunge the last vestiges of feudal marriage by enacting China's first marriage-and-divorce law. The law banned compulsory arranged marriages, concubinage, child betrothal and interference in the remarriage of widows. It reluctantly permitted divorce, but...
Whereas in the past marriage was primarily an economic proposition, many Chinese now place due emphasis on mutual affection, compatibility and even sexual equality. Officials insist that the rise in divorce is temporary, largely because of cases that piled up under the old restrictive law. Alarmed Communist guardians of Chinese...
In Life After Marriage, Alvarez uses his first marriage as the vehicle for a rambling meditation on the vagaries of love and separation. Like his previous work, a study of suicide, The Savage God, he treats a difficult and distressing subject in the symmetrical style of belles-lettres. Divorce, he...