Word: philia
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...Blumenfeld embarked to the South Pacific with his then-girlfriend Helaine (now his wife of more than 40 years) and a group of friends. Philia, an international community, was born...
...While Philia members took jobs in Nelson to help provide funds—“we had to be very pragmatic,” Blumenfeld says —the community suffered from an occasionally hostile environment...
...Japanese film industry during much of the past decade was one of the big factors driving China's recent ascendance. Japan's directors took dead aim at real-life subject matter, not shying away from the darker parts of society and keeping clear of any self-conscious Japan-o-philia. In a country where school bullying, teenage prostitution and youth crime increasingly make headlines, Japan's directors and writers certainly have stories to tell. (Not to mention a large captive audience: one thing disaffected teens still manage to do is go to the movies.) But they've also...
...supporting characters were, on the whole, sharply cast and incredibly well played. Kevin Angle ’03 and Sarah Kerman ’02 beautifully rendered the young lovers, Hero and Philia, effectively selling the usually overdone “Lovely...
...police disclosed that the handwritten diary they had found was drenched in Nazi-philia: phrases in German punctuating a year's worth of meticulous planning for the attack on Hitler's 110th birthday. There were also annotated maps of the school showing the best places to hide and where and when the most students gathered. Again and again, hatred for the jocks emerged in the writings. Said Sheriff Stone: "They wanted to do as much damage as they could possibly do, destroy as many children as they could and go out in flames." The remains of their preparations were evident...