Word: affectionate
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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."
Your decision to resign from the Faculty of Harvard University so that you can remain as a member of my administration is one that I know is very difficult for you. The intensity of both your devotion to scholarship and your affection for Harvard are well-known to your friends...
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...
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...