Word: filially
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...order, an orthodoxy which told every man how to behave in his proper place and kept the social pyramid intact with the emperor on top. The emperor was himself the high priest of a cult of social order. The three main bonds of the Confucian social order were the filial piety of children to their superior parents, the admirable devotion of wives to their superior husbands, the loyalty of scholar officials to their superior the emperor. This system did not believe in the equality of all men, which was obviously untrue. It believed in selecting the talented, training them...
...enemies than to his friends. In his first few months as Premier, he was several times so depressed by the complexities of the job that he threatened to resign. He also complained to U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, with whom he has a tie of near-filial rapport, that he resented having to spend so much time with politicians and newsmen. Lodge pointed out that Lyndon Johnson is in much the same fix; since then, Ky has noticeably relaxed about the inevitable public duties of his job. And for all his indiscretions and growing pains, Ky has worked earnestly...
Back home in Hawaii, Miyawaki gave a scrutably Oriental reason why he had undertaken the hoax: filial piety. His parents, he explained, "so much wished me to be a doctor that I could not let them down." Miyawaki still has a wistful sense of what might have been. "The oral examination wasn't hard," he says. "I think the reason I failed was my presentation. They asked me simple questions, and I tried to tell them about the latest research in the area of each question. I just flipped...
AMERICA, the daughter of Europe," is the way Charles de Gaulle sometimes likes to refer to the U.S. Historically, the metaphor is accurate enough, and Americans happily acknowledge their European inheritance of culture and law, myth and memory. Yet in recent decades, the filial relationship has been reversed. As happens in individual families, too, the offspring has taken over the role of parent. After World War II, it was America that gave Europe food, shelter, the sheer hope of survival. Through patterns of aid and alliance, the U.S. also tried to help banish Europe's ancient, tragic-and sometimes...
...chinaberry tree has been planted hopefully in the wasteland), if it wasn't for Miss Kate, the spinster guardian who keeps threatening to have Henry sent back to prison if he don't give up that fool music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley...