Word: filial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign. Though the moral condemnation of homosexual acts is, to be sure, one of the precepts to be found in the dusty pages of the Bible, there are many others equally restrictive, which must also unjustly burden the consciences of many. The bibliolater's irrational prejudices against filial impiety, murder, adultery, larceny, lying, covetousness--all are equally notorious...
...flintiness -- and by the war -- Rusk's son Richard fled home in 1970 for a succession of dead-end jobs in Alaska. He returned 14 years later with a tape recorder and a determination to make his father talk. The result is an affecting mix of diplomatic memory and filial rediscovery...
...machines (Starlight Express), wraiths (The Phantom of the Opera), icons (Evita) and divinities (Jesus Christ Superstar). His delicate and intimate new work, adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, is about ordinary human beings learning life's painful lessons. The affections on display include the parental, filial and fraternal; but the emphasis is on the romantic, which takes place mostly between partners of unlike ages and is presented as primarily a process of teaching. Events are often melodramatic, but the tone is rueful and autumnal. From the opening moment, a tearstained flashback, love is treated...
...this view, welfare and social services are unnecessary to bring social equality to minorities--just give them a strong dose of filial piety, morality and hard work, and they can fight their way to the top. It's as if poverty, language barriers, cultural differences and discrimination have nothing to do with the social stratification...