Word: companionship
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...sponsors resulted from those inquiries," says Joseph Battaglia, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference office at California's Camp Pendleton. Explains Stahlke: "We're getting a lot of screwballs who are more interested in their own purposes than in the refugees. Some seek cheap labor; others want companionship." A Californian, 44, wrote in for a wife with these specifications: "Godfearing, no dirty background, knows how to speak English, height...
...daughter, Tara, 10. But he wants more kids to play ball with. "Time's passing," he says moodily, and he knows that in one respect he is not moving with it. He is hung up on women's looks. "I want companionship, a woman I can be friends with. But I still want beautiful friends. You don't walk into a room and think of a brain sitting in your lap." His current girl, Model Connie Kreski, is "a terrific woman but not my friend." He adds, as if to set things right, "Not that I want...
...Purr. Pets are the surrogate children- and husbands and wives- of Western society, returning, for kibbles and kisses, companionship and devotion, or at least a cool tolerance accepted as love. Like pharaohs and czars and Caesars, Americans surround themselves with absurdly exalted animals. In a disjointed society and a disquieting world, these anthropomorphized adoptees can be counted on to wag and purr and warble, warming human hearts and hearths until they pass expensively on to await us in the Great Pet Sheraton Upstairs...
...associates of pets, whom they see as fraternal, adventurous and fallible allies, incapable (unlike parents) of scolding or punishing. As Freud noted in Totem and Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs," in one psychologist's phrase-to relate to reality...
...human existence, a woman is defined in terms of her possession of a sex ("woman"), while a man is defined in terms of his human status ("artist"). With a psychological frame-up like that, it's easy to see why women turn to paper and ink for human companionship...