Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dramatic, in which it is in immediate relation to others. "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" exemplifies the first phase, "Ulysses" the second, and "Finnegan's Wake" the last. If it might seem to some readers that the last two have achieved only the most tenuous relationship with "others," Levin's study does much to strengthen the bond...
...general the husbands of the overprotecting mothers were stable and hardworking, but-unlike their spouses-submissive. They did not usually interfere with the mother-child relationship, even when they disliked...
More placidly told, the main story concentrates on the young woman Tanni and the war's effect on her relationship with the Buddhist Lao Peng and with her lover Poya. Tanni is a girl with an equivocal "past," revealed with a shade more suspense than it deserves. Poya is a parlor strategist of no mean talent who can discourse on erotic esthetics and who, for a while, is all she knows enough to need...
...East Asia. "The Philippine Islands," wrote Lea, "bear the same strategic relationship to the Southern Asian coast as the Japanese islands do to the Northern. . . . Without the Philippines, Japan's dominion in Asian seas will be no more than tentative, and her eventual domination or destruction will depend upon who holds these islands." Considering U.S. unpreparedness in the Philippines as of the time he was writing, Homer Lea said the islands could be captured by Japanese as easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only...
Since Franco now has the kind of concordat he long wanted-which the Vatican long refused to grant him-and last month picked the new Primate of Spain, his relationship with the Vatican has been much more cordial. A further indication of this came last week when Rome heard reports that the new Primate, Archbishop Enrique Pla y Daniel of Toledo, would be made a cardinal before the year's end. If so, his will be the first red hat Pope Pius XII has bestowed...