Word: kinship
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...just drawn from the bank; he steals it and flees himself. The woman never reports the loss to the police, for it is money she collected in shame as the mistress of an aged industrialist. Kawabata possessed a delicate sense of the tie between victim and criminal, the kinship of guilt. And of the kinship of sex and death, which the artist, in whatever deformed guises, labors to transcend through art itself...
Beyond their sense of kinship and yearning for a homeland that many have never even seen, the Palestinians are divided as to methods and short-term goals. With unhappy accuracy, one member of a militant commando organization says, "We don't even agree on exactly how much territory we must have or what methods we must use to gain that territory." Despite this surface disunity, the Palestinians, as the massacre at Ma'alot too well demonstrated, are a potent force that must be dealt with if peace is to come to the Middle East...
Born in Zlin. Though Stoppard ravels and unravels the destinies of these characters, that is not his prime concern. Utilizing the Socratic method of perpetual questioning, he is assessing the destinies of 20th century man in a Shavian play of jousting ideas. In dramatic kinship, Jumpers is a child of Shaw's Heartbreak House. In that play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing...
Historian David Donald once wrote a delightful essay called "Getting Right with Lincoln." It told, among other things, how Presidents in trouble over the last hundred years discovered a remarkable kinship to our greatest President...
This view of organized crime has been accepted rather generally. In 1971, however, Francis A.J. Ianni challenged this conception in "A Family Business," a study of an organized crime "family" in New York City's Little Italy. Ianni asserts that criminal syndicates should be viewed as social and kinship organizations, rather than formal ones. He viewed Italian-American criminal syndicates as a form of social organization patterned by tradition and responsive to the Italian-American urban culture. As persisting social systems, Ianni notes, organized crime syndicates must function as integral parts of the surrounding society. Thus Ianni looked at organized...