Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Craig G. Kennedy '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "The Romanov Relations: A Kinship-based Analysis of the 1613 Election of Mikhail Romanov to the Muscovite Throne"--Professor Edward L Keenan...
...book. It is not surprising that Dalby conveys a greater interest in the internal world of the geisha--how the women relate to one another. And what she finds in the Kyoto community of geisha that she studied is a world dominated by women tied together with bonds of kinship often more intimate than those of family. The night, though, is devoted...
...locked in an angry "yes-I-did, no-you-didn't" clinch until Jesse Jackson, who had skillfully been playing both spoiler and referee, stepped in. He clucked that the quarrel would be called so much "rat-a-tat-tat" and dismissed it as a "kinship struggle" between two men "going in the same direction...
...Brooks sees them, his movie's mother and daughter are actually sisters under the skin, connected not just by kinship but by subtle parallels of emotions and experience. Aurora appears initially to be no more than that familiar figure of satire, the American Mom as American Nightmare, all coy snarls and fierce demureness, while Emma, protected only by a thin skin of perkiness, seems to be her victim. "You aren't special enough to overcome a bad marriage," Aurora snaps on the eve of Emma's wedding, voicing her own fears about what might happen...
Fossey firmly establishes these animals in the world where they belong. She may give them cute names like Puck, Pantsy and Macho, but she maintains her scientific distance. There are enough kinship studies, spectographic charts and dung analyses to keep specialists happy. The general reader will be rewarded with adventure, in which virtually nothing has been distorted by preconception or self-absorption. Gorillas in the Mist is a work of direct and refreshing experience. If 1,000 Hamlets were chained to typewriters for eternity, they could not have written this book...