Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...
...neither a conscious nor idealistic process. Says a cynical Parisienne: "If the whole youth of Europe was told, 'You are a unity from the Elbe to the Atlantic,' its answer would be, 'We could not care less.' " Yet, in practice, young Europeans recognize their kinship. "Wherever I go in Western Europe," says a Berlin physics student, "I feel as if we all have the same blood group. We don't really have to bother to get acquainted, because there's nothing strange about anybody's life or ways. We can get right down...
...photographing the newly revealed conformations and deformations of man. In this collection of 16 short stories, Author Updike's plots vary-they may turn on a boy's whistle, a bachelor girl's bed, a bottle of wine-but the personality changes that result share the kinship of human nature well-observed...
...show must admit kinship to Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Walt Disney, it is still the healthiest baby in the TV nursery. Brigid Bazlen claims no professional antecedents at all. Daughter of Chicago Fashion Commentator Maggie Daly Bazlen (Brigid's father is dead), she began at the age of ten with a part in an ABC network soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with...
...learned to combat union organizers by granting white-collar workers the increases given to unions; e.g., General Motors, Ford and Chrysler handed about the same increase to office workers in May that the U.A.W. finally got in the fall. Another is that the white collar worker often feels little kinship with the man in the shop. Since he works more with his head than his hands, he tends to identify himself with management. Still another problem for unions is the growing number of women workers, who often work only part time to supplement family incomes, are more interested in their...