Word: filial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind. Ronnie had plans to make the Cornwell boys experts on the law he had so often flouted. "David and I used to joke about our careers," says Tony. "We were allowed to be anything we wanted, so long as it was a barrister or a solicitor." Tony's filial severance came when he finished reading law at Cambridge. The day after he was called to the bar he left England for the New World and a new career. More impressionable, David opted for Oxford and the life of a don. "My father longed to make of me a respectable...
...days of political power and glory, Thanom was partial to military gabardine encrusted with medals, stars, laurels, tassels, cordons, aiguillettes, galloons, ribands and frogging. As the new, humbled Thanom told it, his return from luxurious exile in Singapore was prompted by filial devotion to his ailing father, Khun Sopit, 91. Defying a request from the Thai Cabinet that he stay out of the country, Thanom underwent a head shave and instant ordination and flew to Bangkok...
...should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent...
...author, comes to her side, and discovers that in spite of his 70 years he doesn't understand her. In the week that passes before death arrives, he tries to penetrate to the "truth" of his mother and of their bond, to "solve" that cliched jigsaw puzzle of filial love. Sitting silently across from her, he tortures himself with questions: "Why did my mother distrust me?"; "Why did she marry my father?"; "What was her youth like?"; "What did she think when...
...materialize, popular support of the Nationalists vanished. Basically, Chiang and his Kuomintang had failed to address themselves to the essential problems of China: rural poverty, illiteracy, unjust taxation, usury and excessive land rents. His idea of revolution was a conservative one: the New Life Movement, which sought to revive filial piety and other Confucian virtues, appealed only to the established minority. Mao's revolution, promising land reform and a total upheaval of the old system, attracted millions...