Word: affectionate
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Like all decent/indecent Restoration comedies, the play cuts to the chase, the chaste and the unchaste. The masquerading Master Aimwell (Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading...
...though they have no legal status whatever. The society's annual budget of $2,800,000 is the envy of the much smaller N.S.P.C.C. (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), which combats Britain's severe child-beating problem. "We're not a particularly affectionate race," explains R.S.P.C.A. Chairman John Hobhouse. "Perhaps we fall back, then, on this affection for animals...
The couple King chose for his cinéma vérité exegesis had been his friends for almost five years. Billy Edwards, 42 years old, is a Toronto adman who had just moved into a cushy suburban-modern house with his wife Antoinette, their infant son Bogart and...
Matthew and Hannah Josephson, liberal writers of long standing, bring both knowledge, political empathy and personal affection to their biography of Smith. Onetime Hearst Journalist Richard O'Connor's book is breezier and briefer, less analytical about Smith and less reflective about his special place in U.S. politics...
Many Libertarians have had at least an affection for Miss Rand, but many have rejected her. Some complain that she is romantic rather than logical, that she is at best a "pseudo-philosopher." Others have "spun out" logically; starting with the premise that the best government is the least government...