Word: affectionate
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"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came to Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers...
He is a tall fellow with fragile hands, a fragile manner, and a coldly unsentimental eye, and he has now come to New York to stage William Inge's forthcoming Natural Affection. This is the story of an unmarried mother (Kim Stanley) whose son returns fro'm reform...
blandly declare, in one of his frequent moments of self-denigration, ''my colleagues and I have built some rather shallow things." To a reporter, he once blurted: "We have built some real dogs!" Yet he confidently sticks to his philosophy; and his buildings have given the public - not...
In a far more difficult role than his Oscar performance of Bridge on the River Kwai, Guinness makes Colonel Jock Sinclair a three-dimensional personality seldom found in portrayals of a standard sort of crude-but-lovable Highland officer. In Kwai, Sir Alec had to be inflexible to the point...
Chemist Champagnat has a growing affection for his busy oil bugs which he claims are much faster workers than steen A 1,000-lb. steer that is properly fed synthesizes 1 lb. of protein in 24 hours. In the same period 1,000 Ibs. of oil bugs grazing on petroleum...