Word: kinship
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Hunched behind his lecturer's desk at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, the speaker introduced his subject as a product of the subconscious ("the earliest form of surrealism"), argued its artistic kinship to the creations of Authors Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, James Joyce, Painters Renoir, Salvador Dali, Henri Rousseau ("the customs inspector who created things of beauty without knowing just how"). He was talking about jazz...
...radio listeners heard Churchill's reply: "What touches me most in this ceremony is that sense of kinship and of unity which I feel exists between us this afternoon. . . . Here at least in my mother's birth city of Rochester, I hold a latch-key to American hearts. . . . What is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? . . . There was no unity. . . . The nations were pulled down one by one. ... Is this tragedy to repeat itself once more? Ah, no. . . . United we stand, divided we fall...
...Aragonese peasant whose wife claimed kinship to a tattered strain of impoverished Spanish nobility, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born in the bedraggled, hard-bitten village of Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, in 1746. He grew into barrel-chested manhood, fighting ruffians and bulls with equal recklessness and gusto. Brawling and wenching his way to Rome, he studied there the shimmering rococo canvases of Tiepolo and Francesco de Guardi, returned to Madrid to work his way up as court painter to Spain's dissolute Charles...
...Africa, Lord Milner. From Milner and Kitchener he absorbed an extraordinary philosophy of empire which inspired him to the end of his days. This philosophy, which the later John Buchan found increasingly hard to talk about, may have been propagated and enforced by Kiplingesque brutality but had no spiritual kinship with it. Saluting it from the wistful distance of 40 years, Buchan remembers...
Harry Hopkins is uniquely the President's friend, counselor, confidant. Somewhere within the lean and hungry Hopkins frame, the burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...