Word: kins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which martyrdom may be little else than "an expression of primary narcissism" or "a need for punishment." Like Camus's Rebel, or Peter Viereck's "unadjusted man," the martyr is one who ultimately refuses to act according to the accepted norms of his society. He is psychological kin, in short, to both the gadfly and the criminal...
Gardner's book gives ample scope to the view that man is more naturally kin to Cain than Abel. Yet it is closer to a more entertaining tradition-the literary monster made real because he has been made so human. Variously and happily, Grendel suggests Caliban, grumping around Prospero's island like the first exploited colonial, Milton's Lucifer, that voluble, self-righteous rebel simmering eternally on a lake of fire, even King Kong on the Empire State Building, bemusedly plucking at those 30-cal. holes in his furry chest...
Last year Indira Gandhi fired Soviet-lining Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh and replaced him with the genuinely neutralist Swaran Singh (no kin). Said one Indian Foreign Office source: "Under Swaran Singh we evolved a new style toward the U.S. which did nothing to rub America the wrong way." The U.S., however, rubbed India very much the wrong way when the Pakistani civil war broke...
...consultations at the White House, and it is safe to assume that the situation will be a major item on the agenda. The signs are that, at least for the time being, Minh will stay. Says his running mate, Saigon Physician Ho Van ("Little") Minh, 35, who is no kin: "Ky's elimination is an important factor for us, but not the decisive factor. We are ready to accept a certain degree of pressure, of threats, of the use of administrative machinery to influence the vote. But there is a limit...
...Thank you for your tasteful, kind coverage of our President's daughter's wedding [June 14]. Dignified womanhood and the American family received a needed boost through your beautiful color photographs of loving, happy, handsome kin and through your respectful text...