Word: filially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Love as Blackmail. Butler was born in 1835, two years before Queen Victoria was crowned. His father, Canon Thomas Butler, was himself a bishop's son-a man who took for granted that his own filial piety would be duplicated in his children. Samuel's mother was also typical of her class and times, i.e., everything a mother of the 19503 tries not to be. It was mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful...
There was more to Donald's view than filial loyalty. Governor Fine holds the key to the Keystone State. He controls about 30 of Pennsylvania's 70-member delegation, and it is entirely possible that Fine's decision to throw his delegates behind Ike Eisenhower or Bob Taft might decide who gets the nomination. Which side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure...
Nebraska-born Wright Morris does more than dedicate his new novel to Sherwood Anderson: in an almost filial gesture, he consciously patterns his story on Anderson's work. The locale of The Works of Love is Anderson's sleepy Midwest of the 1900s. Its style is an echo of Anderson's tone of baffled affection. And it focuses on an inarticulate man, Will Jennings Brady, who mistakenly tries to become a go-getter...