Word: clings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...civilized cities, especially on an American income, and that is part of the reason why so many Americans are living abroad, yourself included. This is not to suggest that you are all escapists. Most of you have important jobs that need to be done. But some of you cling to these jobs with tenacity, almost desperation, terrified at being sent home. And some of you have deliberately chosen Europe as a healing exile from the fevers of America. You are not fleeing stagnation but strife, not bourgeois conformity but the rant of radicalism or reaction. What you are seeking...
Other so called doves share the responsibility, especially those who were re-elected overwhelmingly on dove platforms: Kennedy, Muskie, Fulbright, Hart, Nelson, Hatfield, McGovern, Proxmire, Cooper, Hartke, Magnuson, Bayh, Saxbe and others. The must know it is not enough to give speeches against the war and cling tenaciously to a few plaudits for voting yes on the McGovern-Hatfield amendment...
Which brings us to the not-so-funny issue of blasphemy. It is quite conceivable that many people will be offended by The Greatest Musical: when the father of Christ sings a number like "St. Joseph's Children's Aspirin," it's difficult to cling to traditional notions of sanctity. But this is House drama, produced at a Harvard House. That Harvard is not the same as the real world seems fairly certain at this point. Do things that happen at Harvard also happen simultaneously in the real world? Probably not, and the resulting shared-dirty-joke shawl which protectively...
...nations whose people cling to revered traditions, the leaders can hardly afford to do otherwise. Calling in a dukun or a bomoh (medium) does, after all, please the masses. But in quite a few cases, it also gives a leader a feeling of added insurance...
Gould's surge of success followed closely upon his separation from Barbra, and analysis has also seemed to add to his self-confidence. "It wasn't until the day before yesterday that I stopped being a tortured individual." he says. Curiously, both he and Barbra still cling, however tenuously, to each other and to their 31-year-old son Jason. They have not yet filed for divorce. "That technicality," Elliott says mysteriously, "can evoke a great many inhibitions." It does not inhibit him, though, from camping in his Greenwich Village town house with a quietly attentive 18-year-old girl...