Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa, Lord Milner. From Milner and Kitchener he absorbed an extraordinary philosophy of empire which inspired him to the end of his days. This philosophy, which the later John Buchan found increasingly hard to talk about, may have been propagated and enforced by Kiplingesque brutality but had no spiritual kinship with it. Saluting it from the wistful distance of 40 years, Buchan remembers...
Harry Hopkins is uniquely the President's friend, counselor, confidant. Somewhere within the lean and hungry Hopkins frame, the burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...
Indeed, Vag had always had a feeling of kinship with Frost, the patron saint of all vagabonds . . . that would be a good idea, too: asking Frost to be the Honorary Chairman of his one-man organization. He'd heard a lot about one-man organizations recently. Anyway, Vag decided that he must hear Frost tonight, and planned to get there early, sit in front and watch the subtle, humorous play of expression over the poet's face when he spoke, Adams House tonight at eight...
...diggers do not know how old the great faces are, who carved them, or what their significance was. They will try to find out. They guess that the carvings must have served some purpose in awesome religious rites. The heads have no apparent kinship with any known Mayan sculpture. Biggest mystery: Tabasco heads are made of basalt, and the nearest known source of basalt is 100 miles away. The people who made them must have done a tall job of transportation...
...first I thought he was just drunk," Ralph B. Bennett, Jr. '42 said after his cerie experience with the wild-eyed, mystic individual who claimed kinship with the deity. "But it didn't take me long to realize that it was something more than that...