Word: companionship
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...moral standards . . . rooted in the deep soils of the Christian faith. We have carefully avoided bitterness. [The] months have not at all been easy . . . Our feet have often been tired and our automobiles worn, but we have kept going with the faith that in our struggle we had cosmic companionship, and that, at bottom, the universe is on the side of justice. [The Supreme Court's decision was] a revelation of the eternal validity of this faith, [and] came to all of us as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of enforced segregation in public transportation...
...principles, the action was both his privilege and duty. But there is no such excuse for Dr. Dennis Haley, Boston's Superintendent of School, who not only praised the ban, but that going steady "robs the youngster of one of the finer experiences of growing up--the friendship and companionship of as wide a circle of acquaintances of both sexes as possible." This argument was stated more succinctly by Harvard sociologist George C. Homans who said, "A man gets a much better education playing the field...
...regular meetings of many of the thousands of organizations and associations that have, over the years, stemmed from that early American precedent - the New England town meeting. We have long had a particular interest in these groups, which millions of men and women have joined voluntarily for fraternal companionship, to effect some form of civic betterment or for simple self-improvement. Through John Scott, we have a sense of participation and membership, while we contribute what we are best qualified to give: information and food for thought, collected by a gourmet around the world...
...Jivester. To a chance acquaintance, dapper, potbellied Hussein Suhrawardy would seem an unlikely choice for so forbidding a job. A widower he shuns liquor and tobacco but likes feminine companionship, nightclubs and rumbaing till dawn. He has a concrete dance floor on the roof of his Karachi house, and his record collection includes 1,200 U.S. dance records. When he isn't on the dance floor, Suhrawardy spends most of his time at home in a small bedroom furnished with twin beds. On one he sleeps; on the other, which is piled high with files, telephone books, old magazines...
...with a fading movie star's daughter named Courtney Farrell, who between 15 and 17 has an affair with her mother's gigolo-a homosexual until the heroine sets him straight. After that it's just one Yale man after another, until Courtney turns for intellectual companionship and "decency" to a Harvard law graduate-an "older...