Word: kinship
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...Levi-Strauss writes with a style that relies heavily on nuance, and in part because structuralism operates at so many different levels, it is difficult to sift out a central theme. Leach tries to clear the jumble by interpreting structurally, step by step, the Ocdipus myth and examples of kinship terminology. But finally he confuses his own idea of what structuralism means with Levi-Strauss's and one is left anxious to dive back into The Raw and the Cooked...
...people whose country became independent two hundred years ago. But the Puerto Rican people did not discover and settle the United States, and none of them fought to establish this nation. Their ties to the United States are recent and involuntary, and the slogans they chant reflect a closer kinship with the poorer nations that have broken away than with the richer ones that boast success and power. And so last Friday they marched, militantly but without guns; not disguised at night to throw the tea overboard but openly at noon to announce their intent to the ambassadors...
Start Walking. Up to now, the "revolutionary" dictatorships of the left have been careful to avoid even the suggestion of kinship with the Communist world. "This is a nationalist, popular and Christian revolution," said Peru's President Juan Velasco Alvarado in a Lima speech marking the second anniversary of the military coup that toppled Belaúnde. "We are trying to find for the problems of Peru solutions derived from Peruvian reality." There is evidence too that the Soviets are being wary about writing mortgages on some of the new political experiments. One story has it that last fall...
American business took over in its strongholds, the cities, and boards of directors were more interested in profit than beauty. The first skyscrapers, perhaps even the Flatiron, felt some kinship to public interest. After all, it was a tower in the great tradition, and its architect had decorated it a la greque. With the proliferation of towers, though, skyscrapers were no longer a symbol, except, for example, the Empire State Building, for its sheer height. They eventually could be constructed simply to provide...
...rest of Losing Battles is devoted to remembering and burying Miss Julia. She spent a bitter life in a Sisyphean struggle to nudge Banner out of its happy bondage of ignorance and kinship into the modern world. The symbol of her defeat is Jack Renfro's beautiful wife Gloria, a Mortimer protegee who actually won a statewide spelling bee and succeeded Miss Julia as schoolteacher. "She stands for all I gave up to marry you," says Gloria. "I'd give her up again tonight. And give up all your family...