Word: kinship
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...makes a healthy, unblemished girl decide to poke holes through her ears? The reasons are numerous. At first, it was a challenge and a sign of being off-beat. The girl who had pierced ears belonged to an elite group, whose members, rejoicing in their radicalness, felt a certain kinship to other piercees. The bond resembled that among owners of Jaguar sportscars, who honk loudly whenever they pass a confrere on the road. Also, ear piercing was a method of rebellion against parental authority. Mother, who had worn screw-on button earrings all her life, was horrified to see slivers...
...Kinship was the theme. "Since I belong to a large, close family myself, I can see how horrible it must be for the many Berliners separated from their relatives behind the Wall," said Mrs. Rose Kennedy. The trip to West Berlin held a bit of nostalgia, for as a schoolgirl she had visited the city. Besides, she said, she wanted to see again the city that had given her son such a tumultuous welcome. But the visit was short. By week's end she was back in Hyannis Port to join her three sons for the quiet family celebration...
...magnetized doll-house ($15) raised on stilts and inhabited by a family of lifelike dolls. Any bright little girl can move the dolls by manipulating a magnetic wand underneath the floor. "It's a new concept," explained Exhibit Director Mrs. Janet Freud (whose father-in-law claims kinship to Sigmund). "Now the child can control Mama and Papa. The mother can go to the sink or she can iron at the ironing board. The mouse goes down his mousehole, the dog into his doghouse. The cat chases the mouse, and the girl can carry a letter." What does Father...
Despite their kinship as neighboring Deep South schools, the University of Alabama and the University of Mississippi are a study in contrasts, all favoring Alabama...
...through basic training and treats him as a sort of super-minority-the classic fall guy, mocked and persecuted even by his fellow Negroes. Taub East takes up the theme of alienation and minorities in terms of an amateur rabbi-an enlisted man in occupied Japan-brooding about his kinship with the eta, the "unmentionable outcast class, persecuted in accord with antique, hallowed laws...