Word: kinship
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Cause & Effect. A Negro who has won four national awards for stories that have taken him from the Deep South to the Far East, Carl Rowan, reporter and author (South of Freedom), brought to his 15-part Tribune series a mixture of shrewd news sense and a personal kinship with the Indian-the other "American who is not quite an American." In six months on the story, he traveled thousands of miles through reservations in Minnesota and North and South Dakota, talked to hundreds of Indians and white officials. His published series is not only a hard-hitting indictment...
ACCORDING to legend, the Hungarians are descended from Noah's grandson Magyar. The Magyars of Hungary bear no ethnic kinship to their Slavic neighbors in the Balkans, and of all Europe's peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
After World War II, French existentialists found new kinship with Sade's bitter cynicism. Simone de Beauvoir called him a "great writer and a great moralist." Albert Camus argued that Sade explained Naziism's "reduction of man to an object of experiment." Psychologists conceded that in his recognition of the impulse to cruelty in sexual relations, he anticipated some of Freud's thinking. Responding to this interest, alert, young Publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert printed a 28-volume set of Sade's complete works, put them on public sale for the first time in France in unexpurgated...
...title story, Tehilla, is perhaps the one most deeply infused with the Jewish past. On the surface a straightforward account of the saintly life and pious death of a venerable matriarch, it is luminous with ghetto wisdom, Hassidic mysticism and that sense of close kinship with God that has been the buckler of the Jews through the centuries. The Israeli writers are clearly still groping toward a native form of expression, and this book gives an indication of their potential. No other group of writers, except possibly the Anglo-Indians, have so great an opportunity of drawing on the inexhaustible...
...long run, Clare Luce's major diplomatic achievement may well be the warm kinship she built up for herself and her nation with the Italian people-many of whom, at the beginning, were frankly skeptical about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half...