Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, "Irrevy" (an unspeakable title) is a popularization with a list of supporting technical documents to the back pages. Displaying a refreshing lack of academic pomposity, Gofman dedicates the book to the cartoonists whose works entice prospective readers. Perhaps Gofman feels kinship with cartoonists because, like them, he seems constitutionally unable to mince meanings. The urgency that charges his writing springs from his conviction that no quality of radioactivity is harmless. The National Academy of Sciences upheld the 1969 finding of the Gofman-Tamplin Report that no evidence exists for a safe level of radiation. Gofman also cites a Nuclear...
...Soviet archaeologists conjecture that the buried nobles of Shibarghan were members of a local ruling family in the midst of this dark period. One sign of kinship: two skeletons bore rings of identical design. Sarianidi's theory is that a family patriarch stumbled upon the long buried temple and appropriated it as a royal necropolis. For 200 years successive generations were apparently buried at the unmarked site, probably by night to outwit grave robbers...
Michael Tremblay, a French Canadian writer, makes several references to soap opera in his play, ironically acknowledging his work's kinship to all that sordidness. But soap opera, for all its low rent aspects, works because few of us can tolerate lives in which nothing ever happens. At least SOMETHING happens in a soap opera. The characters in Bonjour La, Bonjour sit isolated in chairs, hardly able to interact physically, hardly able to look at each other, almost totally unable to bear looking at themselves. Their lives would echo with emptiness were it not for their soap opera--their dramatic...
...Vincent Sarich calls a "genetic clock." That timepiece is based on comparative studies, done since the early 1960s, of the blood proteins, immunology and DNA (the genetic molecule) of various mammals, including the primates. Out of this work scientists have been able to measure the degree of genetic kinship among different species. They have found, for example, that while the genes of horse and Homo sapiens differ by as much as 20%, those of chimps and man vary by only...
Generally they have a strong regard for the family and maintain close kinship ties across the generations at a time when the weakening of traditional U.S. family bonds is a focus of concern. Many come from strongly patriarchal societies and find themselves in conflict with expanding social opportunities for American women. Most intangibly, latinos offer the U.S. an amalgam of buoyancy, sensuousness and flair that many northern peoples find tantalizing or mysterious?and sometimes irritating or threatening...