Word: kinship
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...inaugural address, Sovern spoke of the kinship between Columbia and New York City and the need to "provide the deepest, broadest, most challenging education...
...Porter (Malcolm McDowell) would be an intolerable bully. As it is, he humiliates his upper-class wife Alison (Lisa Banes), who hides behind a stiff upper lip and an ironing board. He hectors his live-in friend Cliff (Raymond Hardie), with whom he has some sort of male-bonding kinship. And he browbeats his actress mistress Helena (Fran Brill), who moves in when Alison leaves...
When King does attempt his own thesis, applying not only Freud, but Hegel, Weber, Neitzshe, Levi-Strauss, and Marx to the Southern burden, his grandiose designs appear pretentious at best, silly at worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery...
Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, is something of a rarity: a Jewish American who openly professes compassion for the Palestinian people and recognizes the need for coexistence and mutual trust. "I feel almost a kinship with the Palestinians," says Rabbi Schindler. "The role they are playing in the Arab world is not unlike the role of the Jews in the world: rootless wanderers...
...overseas again; fewer Americans are transfixed by any evil within. They have the patriotism of outraged innocence (contaminated somewhat by association with the Shah and by the tales of SAVAK tortures). Americans, for so long vaguely depressed by endless quarrels among themselves, now find they are in an unexpected kinship of common interest and travail...