Word: clings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...letter to wife Minna, demanding separation after 14 years of bickering marriage, he further uncloaks his character. ". . . You cling to the peacefulness and permanence of existing conditions-I must break them to satisfy my inner being; you are capable of sacrificing everything ... to 'have a respected position in the community,' which I despise . . . You think only of the past, with nostalgia and yearning-I give that up and think only of the future . . . You cling to people, I to causes; you to certain human beings, I to humanity...
...hard-souled, faceless Snopeses, whose only purpose in life is to accumulate money. In the present-day South, Faulkner admires only such stiff-back Negroes as Lucas Beauchamp of Intruder in the Dust (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), who endure humiliation with patience and dignity, and those poor whites who cling to their land, their families and their old morality...
Visitors who could not catch the fast flow of German words and wit found few arias to cling to. But connoisseurs found some puckish operatic humor to smile over. Sample: when one character asks, "Why not compose an opera on a mythological theme?" the Producer (sung by Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler) replies, to a melody from Strauss's 1912 opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, "But it's been done." Smiled Baritone Schoeffler: "The old man had fun when he wrote this...
...makes no sense for the U.S. to reverse its concept of Formosa's strategic importance and at the same time cling stubbornly to the old, down-the-nose political attitude towards Formosa's Nationalist government. Yet so far as I can judge here, this is precisely what the U.S. State Department is undertaking to do. I can state as fact that no instructions to modify or alter in any way our political, diplomatic and military relations with the government of this island have been received by U.S. representatives here...
...folly to live at Harvard College and cling to the dress habits of some other locality. Purple shirts and lime-colored pants may be the height of fashion in Southern California, but a man in such a costume passing through the Yard is likely to stop traffic and cause much derisive comment. This does not mean that lime-colored slacks are bad, merely that they look peculiar in the surroundings of the Yard. Some people, out of spite, will cling to their lime pants and two-tone jackets; it is their privilege...