Word: filial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chinaberry tree has been planted hopefully in the wasteland), if it wasn't for Miss Kate, the spinster guardian who keeps threatening to have Henry sent back to prison if he don't give up that fool music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley...
...Book. Since then, taking with her everywhere the filial shadow, she has done over 200 TV shows, a Broadway play (Late Love with Arlene Francis in 1953) and three movies (she was Dean-o Martin's fiancee in Who's Been Sleeping...
...next election, they soon reappeared on the public payroll, the father as a $20,000 a year commissioner, and the son, with the sense of humor that is peculiar to Massachusetts, as chairman of the civil service commission. Apart from the unusual warmth and trust of the parental-filial relationship, neither of these gentlemen has any particular qualifications for office, any office; certainly no more than the judge who was once a lawyer who knew the Governor or the commissioner who is a defeated legislator. The Governor can be given the power to suspend all indicted state officials...
...same violent mood serves him well later when he emits a shriek of triumph after the play scene, when he offers more-than-filial embraces to his mother, and when he mimics the affected posturing of Rosencrantz in the recorder scene...
Spacious Way. John's filial pleasure in being provided with a new, ready-made family was unaffected, as was his delight in the spectacle of his father-in-law and stepmother-in-law having dramatic lovers' quarrels in their 70s. The new family was huge. There were nine children in all, and the sense of size was enhanced by their spacious way of life. They lived in a huge baronial mansion on New Haven's best street, had an estate in the New Hampshire hills consisting of a great central house and several flanking cottages to take...