Word: filial
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...Tibetan dies, his body is carried to the top of a mortuary hill, hacked into pieces by body breakers and left to be picked clean to the bone by scavenger birds and beasts. Tibetan sons keep their fathers' skulls and use them as drinking cups out of filial piety. On stormy days, when blizzards smother the high mountain passes, lamas cut out paper horses and scatter them to the winds to carry help to any poor traveler foundering in the deep snow. Meeting a stranger, a Tibetan sticks out his tongue in friendly greeting...
...duty of a wife was simply to produce children-sons, not daughters. For 250 years under the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's population was kept stable largely by female infanticide.* Of the girls permitted to live, those who became prostitutes in order to support their parents were praised for filial piety. Every woman trod the Path of the Three Obediences: to her father before marriage, to her husband when she was wed, to her son if she became a widow. "The Japanese wife needs no religion," ran the saying. "Her husband is her sole heaven...
...Recollections of Leavitt & Peirce not only are effusive ("At least one tiny island on a fluxing planet has remained the way one likes to remember it"), but like smoke, they drift far from the source. Novelist Walter D. Edmonds ('26) begins with the admission that he broke a filial promise not to smoke until he was 21 when "some Jesuitical character pointed out to me that I was already in my twenty-first year," rambles on to recall that the resulting fumes possessed a curious musk. "Some mornings I awoke to find as many as ten cats...
...altars and confessionals. From all over Italy he hand-picked a corps of 800 preachers belonging to all religious orders. He lined up the cooperation of Milan's officials, businessmen and non-Communist Labor leaders. Aim of the mission is not converts but "to strengthen man's filial ties...
...character and event in By Love Possessed is bathed in the glow of a reflective intelligence. Every motivation rings true; each episode is part of a seamless whole; the taste of reality is unmistakable. The audacious scope of the novel is nothing less than the anatomy of love-from filial to fraternal, from spiritual to concupiscent, from self-regarding to self-sacrificing. Its disenchantment is equally total-the possessors are methodically dispossessed, love conquers nothing, the lovers lose...