Word: kinship
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...nonsense, of course. But there are worse literary crimes than that. Clavell's book can claim kinship to those wonderful lithographs of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that once decorated every barroom. It isn't art and it isn't truth. But its very energy and scope command...
...remained in the London publisher's custody; in 1940 a Luftwaffe bomb reduced them to confetti. Nabokov explains all this in a foreword to this revised translation-also his own -and enters his usual caveat against reading anything into the book that isn't there: "Despair, in kinship with the rest of my books, has no social comment to make, no message to bring in its teeth...
Anthropology involves plenty of theory, most of it dealing with data on specific peoples and culture areas. Although this data is not always as pedestrian as kinship charts and lists of archaeological eras would indications it seldom titillates like quaint sexual customs and recipes for shrinking heads...
...marital breakups. While sex, money and incompatibility are the traditional reasons for divorce, a mobile and changing urban society has loosened many of the bonds that once held marriage together, depriving men of their absolute dominance, giving women a large measure of economic independence and weakening the sense of kinship. Marriage means happiness to Americans-and its inevitable problems seem to catch them by surprise. Mistakes are also easier to make in a day when mating is more random than ever. Unlike the divorce laws, the laws of marriage are simplicity itself: a girl can marry at 18 in most...
Obviously, it is more than Alkan's music that drives Lewenthal toward the dragon; there is a sense of kinship with Alkan himself. "The life of Alkan," he says, "was full of galling disappointments and frustrations, of which its end was its most decisive event...