Word: kinship
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...more sentimental souls, the eclipse provided another chance to applaud the victory of an underdog. Now bearing human footprints, the moon has assumed a new kinship with mankind. And once again, that tiny body whose feeble reflective light is daily obscured by the overpowering brilliance of sun had succeeded in blotting out, however temporarily, the dominant light source in man's special locus within the universe...
...those who have fought for so long to protect their own plains, lakes and hunting grounds. It would be wrong to romanticize Indian culture, but there is something to be valued, or at least envied, in a society that respects the wisdom of elders, enjoys the closeness of kinship, prefers tranquillity to competition, and sees little merit in 9-to-5 punctuality at a desk...
...listen to thoughts of his own death "like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through which such awareness flows is the aging poet full of misgivings and reminiscences: "My numinous map/ of the Solihull gasworks/ gazed...
...second half of the course, the youngsters study movies, stories and special materials about a primitive Eskimo culture. They learn that what seems like a very simple way of life has all the complex relationships found in modern urban society: kinship systems, trading, mythology...
...Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...