Word: filial
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...length character, old Leander Wapshot. "Bathe in cold water every morning," Leander counseled his sons. "Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date exurban alarums and filial excursions-including creeping despair and the generation gap -has widened farther than ever the consistent gap between Cheever's surface realism and the bizarre events and distorted perspectives of the moral allegories he pursues...
Another young woman who displayed a similar lack of filial piety in the early stages of the Cultural Revolution now languishes in jail. Liu Pingping, daughter of President Liu Shao-chi, the man whom the Maoists have denounced as the chief target of the great purge, attacked her "dog father" and mother, but apparently with insufficient force...
...PRICE. Arthur Miller again walks the treadmill of filial duties and familial guilts as two brothers (Pat Hingle and Ar-ijf thur Kennedy) meet in the attic of their former home to evaluate the monetary price of their possessions and the existential cost of their choices...
...Anderson, wears its heart on its sleeve but has small muscle in its script. It sentimentally examines the plight of a son who wants to heal the wound of lovelessness festering between himself and his aging tyrant of a father, magnificently played by Alan Webb. A sense of mortality, filial duty and remorse, family ties that chafe as well as bind, all give the play scenes of poignance but, despite the impeccable direction of Alan Schneider, never a coherent dramatic vision...
...sense of mortality that makes every dying old man a portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries. The effort mostly takes the form of talk -on filial duty, on paternal sacrifice, on the family ties that chafe as they bind. Instead of a shock of recognition, there is merely the camera click of domestic snapshots that might turn up in any middle-class family album...