Word: kinship
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...America, and it menaces the culture of our politics, for it challenges the bedrock faith of a nation whose secular theology is equality. Is America a nation of individual Americans or a nation of separate communities? If communities were to be given rewards and responsibilities distributed on lines of kinship, ancestry, skin color or religion, the Lebanonization of American politics might lie down the road. And then would come the Orientals, Caribbeans, Africans with other demands. Was ours a nation of separate groups? Or a nation of individual people clinging to the notion that all men are created equal...
...conservative President and the moderate (and once liberal) senator hardly share an ideological kinship. But Percy now basks in Reagan's light and welcomes Presidential visits to Illinois. His relationship with the President, his campaign argues, represents the "Illinois Advantage": Percy's got clout in the White House and can help bring jobs to Illinois. He touts the economic "miracle" of 1981-84. Yet during these "miraculous" years, the Illinois unemployment rate has risen from 8.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. The state has lost more than 250,000 jobs in manufacturing industries alone. How's that for clout...
...Craig G. Kennedy '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "The Romanov Relations: A Kinship-based Analysis of the 1613 Election of Mikhail Romanov to the Muscovite Throne"--Professor Edward L Keenan...
...book. It is not surprising that Dalby conveys a greater interest in the internal world of the geisha--how the women relate to one another. And what she finds in the Kyoto community of geisha that she studied is a world dominated by women tied together with bonds of kinship often more intimate than those of family. The night, though, is devoted...
...locked in an angry "yes-I-did, no-you-didn't" clinch until Jesse Jackson, who had skillfully been playing both spoiler and referee, stepped in. He clucked that the quarrel would be called so much "rat-a-tat-tat" and dismissed it as a "kinship struggle" between two men "going in the same direction...