Word: kins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Genealogy. The TV series impelled thousands of kin seekers to ferret through attics, trunks and old boxes of letters in pursuit of clues to their origins. At the Heritage Library in Glendale, Calif, which boasts an excellent genealogical collection, the number of visitors has increased by 75% in recent months. The New York Public Library, with one of the world's largest genealogical libraries, reported an increase in attendance in the month following Roots of 37% over February 1976. At the National Archives, the gray stone temple on Washington's Constitution Avenue, where Haley found his inspiration, mail...
Finally, the night passes, and in a kind of coda the old gaffer's kin arrive at his chateau to help him celebrate his birthday. One now sees the raw material he has been working with. If none of his family has genius, or even an excess of individuality, they all appear to be rather pleasant people, undeserving of the imaginary treatment they have received. The audience is left once again -and once too often-to speculate on the gap between reality and illusionary art, and on the widely alleged necessity for the artist to behave inhumanely. These gaseous...
...naturally more guarded-any boy who suggests the name "Hot" to his kin and turns up at 52 as President-elect was hardly slated to end as a joker-and even in Faye's cafe the next night with a handful of journalists, his wife and daughter, round a ten-foot table over perfect steaks, he is not prone to giggling fits. What he mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost...
...Mountain is among the few not to find switching sides a tempting treat. He plans to use the year of grace provided by the sympathetic winner to decide if he wouldn't rather just quit. He already has a host of legal wizards and kin poring over the challenge document, looking for a loophole big enough for the bulbous Mike...
...followed by one on black urban life after 1960, furnishes blacks with a sympathetic and un-patronizing, if non-radical model of their heritage. "Kinship ties" and generational memory may go a long way toward explaining how blacks fell together during the early Civil Rights Movements. And "fictive" kin adoption may shed light on why black children in the North still grow up knowing any number of "uncles" and "aunties" who belong to the outer reaches of their kinship network or are not among their blood relatives at all. To forge these links slaves may have been obliged...