Word: kinship
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...Babies who appear lifeless at birth because their mothers have been heavily dosed with morphine and sister drugs during labor may now be saved by another related drug (n-allyl-normorphine). Philadelphia's Dr. James E. Eckenhoff explained that despite the close chemical kinship, it is an antagonist to morphine and a quick antidote...
...than that of its readers who took the book as a sly but calculated assault on Hitlerism (500,000 copies have been sold on the Continent). The Grand Prince of this first of Bergengruen's 60 books to be published in the U.S. is not only without real kinship to the Fiihrer, but the evil that took place in imaginary Cassano is of the garden variety that can be generated in any time and place by the imperfections in man's nature...
...Hidden Kinship. When the U.S., aroused to Communism's dangers, quickly took up the anti-Communist crusade of "good nations" against "bad nations," Niebuhr fears that it underestimated the attraction and the complication of the "utopian illusions" which Communism borrows from liberal society. The rise of Communism he compares to the rise of Islam and its challenge to Christian civilization in the Middle Ages. Communism, like Islam, has exploited many just and legitimate grievances against the society it found, and the fight against it is automatically complex and devious. It may be impossible to stamp...
...great historical struggle which he cannot control. Warns Niebuhr: "There is no simple triumph over this spirit of fear and hatred. It is certainly an achievement beyond the resources of a simple idealism. For naive idealists . . . could not bear to be reminded that there is a hidden kinship between the vices of even the most vicious and the virtues of even the most upright...
What overcame Hardy's faults was his deep knowledge of human weakness, his brooding kinship with suffering. Some of his poems are short stories in rhyme, gravely undulating narratives about the dangers of irresponsible passion and the ironies that level men to despair. A good many turn on the theme of unhappy marriage, a subject on which he could speak with authority...