Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingratiating singing voice, but brings poignance to the unintended rupture of father and son. For Hector, Dillard's preference for guitar playing to farming the land of his daddy and granddaddy is a betrayal, a pain oddly mixed with pride. The old man's reaction is akin to the feelings of an immigrant father who sends a son to college to learn a language and a culture that the two may never share. This blood gap has never been treated more sensitively in an American play...
Quite obviously, there are allegorical implications here. Finding them is akin to walking behind our metaphorical elephant in Herzog circus. All that is needed to pick up on the symbols is a rather large shovel. What Fitzcarraldo lacks is subtlety and grace. Herzog leaves little to the imagination, and the result is a film that numbs us by its stubborn unwieldiness...
...back cover of It's Hard sports a child toying with something akin to "Space Invaders." The kid is trying to destroy figures that look remarkably like The Who. But Townshend and the rest are dodging admirably, as if to show their generation can still play the game. The Who are older. But they're not dead...
...letters span 44 terrible years, from Revolution and Red Terror through the great purges and war. The correspondents were cousins, akin in blood, spirit and culture: Olga, the distinguished classical scholar, and Boris, one of Russia's greatest modern poets. Of Pasternak's letters the most revealing bear upon Doctor Zhivago...
...touch with certain springs of human identity and creativity," he is wrong. Programming a computer is primarily an artistic and not a scientific activity. When I teach my students computer skills, I am offering them a new way to be creative. The art of writing programs is akin to the art of writing poetry...