Word: filially
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...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
Prescient men have seen it coming, but they have kept their silence in a spirit of filial devotion. The abolition of Greek and Latin entrance requirements, the establishment of Radcliffe and Social Relations--these were received with stunned but obedient submission. Now the time for silence is past; the time has come to speak out, for Harvard's Ages of Gold and Silver are forever gone, and usurping Brass anticks in its vulgar triumph...
...plays Ruth, a chance to show that she is prettily put together, since Hollywood's standard pagan-priestess gown is an off-the-shoulder number. The device also allows Writer Corwin to add a fairly effective sermon on prejudice to the Bible's skeletal story of filial devotion...
...having kept an open mind on the subject-no resolutions were passed-sought the counsel of Pope John XXIII. "It is on this problem, so basic in modern society," said Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni, who led the delegates in, "that we have come together here to listen with filial devotion to the words of the Holy Father...
...Father" luncheon at the Women's National Press Club and a visit to the White House, nine of the 20 living children of U.S. Presidents (plus other descendants of chief executives stretching back to John Adams) dropped some light-hearted footnotes to history. Among the Presidents subjected to filial gossip...