Word: brotherhood
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Cynical as he is, O'Hara believes in some kind of salvation. His solution, like his criticism, is neither new nor profound, but it is handled with extra-ordinary skill. For O'Hara, salvation comes through brotherhood, through man's deep love of man. Where people's hearts and lives connect, there is freedom and meaning...
...Collins", the best story in The Cape Cod Lighter, carries this message of brotherhood. Through his friendship with the eminently successful Whit Hofman, Pat Collins builds up a good business. But there is a hitch: Pat's wife loves Whit and seduces him. When their affair ends, Mrs. Collins confesses to her husband, and his world collapses. Not sin, but Pat's loss of his friend brings failure. He loses all faith in himself. As his world crumbles, Pat spends his evenings at a speakeasy where he befriends a lonely elderly millionaire who has spent 35 years writing a life...
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
Like other Africans in Eastern Europe, the 350 African students in Bulgaria found more segregation than brotherhood, more indoctrination than education. After the riot, Ghana's ambassador lodged a strong protest with the Bulgarian government, and just about all of the Africans in Sofia decided to pack up and seek education elsewhere. "We have been insulted in every possible way," said Ghanaian Agricultural Student Robert Kotey as he arrived in Vienna. "We were molested in the streets, called 'black monkeys' and 'jungle people,' and people used to spit out before us on buses and trains...
...destiny and infinite worth of man, a vision that there could be a day when men would find there was nothing more important to exchange than "trust for trust," was Marx's core of meaning. Fromm, with similar concern, sees the striving for individual self-realization and brotherhood (though they have become more and more unconscious yearnings) eroded, repressed and misdirected with the help of social forces...