Word: kinship
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Nailing Up Heads. Like most of the Roman ruling class, Caius Julius Caesar was a somebody at birth. He liked to trace the family tree right to Rome's legendary founder Romulus, and even claimed kinship with Mars and Venus...
...Humber Hawk chauffeured by his wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin," Nye got off to an impish start by likening the Tories...
...parentage bears the same relation to Eliot's concern with psychological or religious identity that agile fingers have to great musical ability. It is kind of mass symbol for the real thing. As members of the audience we waste our time if we try to puzzle out the kinship system in the play. We are meant, as someone says in the play, to understand ourselves a little better in the effort to understand others. The active member of the audience participates in the business of the play. Roger W. Brown Tutor in Social Relations
...does Notre Dame do it? Many Notre Dame critics-and they are legion, particularly among rival coaches-point out that Notre Dame's bird-dogging alumni fervently flush out football players by the covey. Even nonalumni, e.g., New York's subway variety, feel such a kinship for the Fighting Irish that they adopt Notre Dame and flood it with batches of scouting reports on swivel-hipped high-school backs, blockbusting linemen. Notre Dame acknowledges the bird-dogging tactics of its alumni talent scouts, but points out briskly that, unlike some institutions which pull players out of trees...
...kinship in primitiveness with some of his last ones...