Word: kinships
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Coles says that Springsteen’s generosity grew out of a kinship he feels with DoubleTake’s mission. “If you listen to his songs and read his words,” he says, “that’s what he’s struggling with. To sing, equals to say, about the country, the troubled parts of it, the ordinary working people...
...archangelic descent was seen around the world. Aboard the ship was Israel’s first astronaut, who had become a national hero in his home country before he ever stepped foot on the Space Shuttle. The pain is also felt deeply here at Harvard, for a certain kinship is shared amongst those—be they students at desks or astronauts in space—who devote their lives to the brave pursuit of knowledge. We thank President Summers and the various student organizations responsible for the beautiful remembrance ceremony that was held in Memorial Church in honor...
...With this knowledge under our belt, it is irresponsible if not morally reprehensible for us to continue exploiting other species for our selfish purposes. Whether we slaughter animals for food, skin them for clothing or goad them into entertaining us at the circus, we can no longer deny our kinship with them. CHRISTINA J. JOHNSON Long Beach, Calif...
...read excerpts from a few of the more than 150 messages that have been posted on the website by Wamba’s classmates, friends, acquaintances and others whom he had never met but were inspired by his memoir, Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America...
...unfamiliar and heady environment, I happened upon a gate with a plaque bearing familiar words: “I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners, at which my heart rose.” I stood there for a moment, smiling, feeling a kinship with the author, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, America’s first English-speaking poet...