Word: filial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hingle) scares the falcon, and Chris' girlfriend (Lori Singer) is one big vacant California erogenous zone. His treason is pinned on mid-America, not so much for the evil of its ways as for the banality of its style. Affluence is flatulence; good intentions are to laugh at; filial piety is worth nothing but betrayal...
Moon's Unification Church has become the first popular "echo" religion, or eastern reflection of western Christianity, according to Harvey Cox. It emphasizes filial piety, family values (Moon will suggest marriage partners to church members who seek his advice), and respect for the holy man. Moon preaches that contrary to traditional Christian theology, Christ was not meant to be crucified but to marry and father a race to supplant the fallen descendants of Adam...
Most of Tom's filial anxiety is expressed in petulant silences, terse complaints or brooding bedroom confidences to his wife. The dominant mood of the story is foreboding, not confrontation. Arlen enlarges the narrative with flashbacks, precise observations of the Southwestern landscape, persuasively detailed descriptions of scenes from Sam's imaginary film classics. He keeps the conflict from becoming one-sided by displaying Sam's abrupt charms and convincing manifestations of primitive genius: a ruthless urge to simplify, instantaneous judgment about character, a capacity for total absorption coupled with the short attention span of a child...
...trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan
...anteater." Does that count? Russians are better at such things. Once in my earshot Lillian Hellman observed: "A crazy person is crazy all the time." I have frequently found that valuable, particularly when in the company of a crazy person who is, for the moment, lucid. Confucius said: "Filial piety is the constant requirement of Heaven." That seems to me an excellent aphorism...