Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirty-minded Harvard students are apparently ill-bred, licentious, decadent, lusty, oversexed, akin to the lower animals, undisciplined, and bent on destroying female virtue and jeopardizing stable society, the New England Journal of Medicine suggested in an editorial this week...
...etchings, 15 of which are included in this show, the watercolors of one of Europe's best-known graphic artists are exquisite linear abstractions. Friedlaender's soft-focus shadings on old parchment, brightened by occasional glimmers of red and blue, reveal a fancy and poesy akin to Klee. Through...
...Tensed Muscle." Phillips, an Anglican minister who resigned from his London parish in 1955, found the Old Testament much tougher going than the New, which was written in free and easy colloquial Greek that is akin in spirit to modern English. No Hebrew scholar, he discovered that almost every letter was a "tensed muscle" and that the style of the Old Testament possessed a "monolithic grandeur," requiring a language "which is both dignified and authoritative...
...praise is triggered by Mr. Kalem's characteristically incisive comment on Osborne's Luther and Anouilh's The Rehearsal in your issue of Oct. 4. He could be mistaken for no other critic, though his unique excellence is akin to that of our greatest theater critic, the late Stark Young...
...totally unimaginative member of the draw-it-likethey-want-it-to-look school who won just about every honor there was for his portraits of the Soviet dictator, but fell from favor in the great destalinization campaign despite his abject recantings, a switch that Western observers regarded as something akin to Whistler turning on his mother; of a heart attack; in Moscow...