Word: kinship
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Only Nature Counts. The kinship of his harlequin colors seems miraculous. Foliage flutters before the eye like scurrying butterflies. An overcoat lying on a chair takes on the bulk and presence of its wearer. A still life of skulls-piled more like strange fruit than memento mori-melts their contours into the curves of a parti-colored tablecloth in a haunting arabesque...
Although the freshman's problems of adjustment have received more attention than those of the sophomore, they are basically less complicated and more has been done to overcome them. Because virtually all freshmen are in the same boat, a feeling of kinship characteristically arises among them. Furthermore, the vastly improved system of advising in the Yard has mitigated the traumatic effects of the transition from secondary school to college. As Dean Monro observed, "The main problem for many freshmen is to establish the right to be in the academic community - to survive they must only behave and get at least...
...have realized it. but that first million was eventually to mount to at least $9.000.000 more. He was to accumulate one of the world's best private collections of French painting from David to Cezanne along with such "ancestors" as Rubens, in whom he saw a kinship to Renoir, and such later masters as Picasso...
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...Scrantonian (geographically only), and well aware of the kinship between TIME and Bill Scranton, I was quite prepared to read a completely biased article [Oct. 19]. Your treatment of both candidates for governorship of Pennsylvania was stunningly unprejudiced...