Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These lean, didactic, aphoristic statements, so varied in their language, seem to distill a universal wisdom. In the Samoan fishing culture, which is dependent on the canoe, islanders would have no difficulty in recognizing the kinship of the English proverb, "It never rains but it pours," to one of their own: "It leaks at the gunwale, it leaks in the keel." From the Biblical injunction, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it is only a short and negotiable step to an old saying of the Nandi tribe in East Africa: "A goat's hide buys...
Some gifted precisionists acknowledge this kinship with tongue in cheek...
KING LEAR. The consummate skill of Lee J. Cobb has elevated Lear's pain into a kinship of the spirit. The play is by far the best work the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered. It is distinguished by a supporting cast that truly supports, and is a tribute to the artistry of Director Gerald Freedman...
...Moslems living in the southern parts of the archipelago, Marcos dredged up the issue and signed a congressional bill asserting Philippine sovereignty over Sabah. The Philippine Moslems, who are mostly underprivileged and poor, would like access to Sabah's prospering economy. They also feel a kinship with Sabah's 200,000 Moslems...
...ancien régime felt a special kinship with the stylized artifice of Chinese design. Chinese porcelain was admired for its curvilinear grace, and mantelpieces and niches were filled with delicious Meissen and Chantilly imitations of Chinese styles. One of the most striking objects in the Wickes collection is the great black Chinese chest that London craftsmen lovingly set on legs of gilded wood. When the stateliness of the baroque era gave way to the studied insouciance of the court of Louis XV, chests took on a kind of portly gentility, as witness the gilt-trimmed rococo commode in Wickes...