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The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End.

From Time Magazine Archive

The extinction of faith in the familistic system is identical with the movements in Greece during the century following the Peloponnesian Wars, and in Rome from about A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

It so occurred that the family pattern provided, indeed, the model for the government, but the importance of villages in Chinese life negated the too sharp influence of a familistic government.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony