Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most of the inhabitants of that zoo are subatomic particles dubbed hadrons, a family that includes the familiar protons, pions and K mesons. Even so, hadrons are not the ultimate form of matter. They seem to be composed of still more basic particles called quarks. But how do quarks cling together? Answer: by tossing gluons back and forth among themselves...
...evidently, is its addictiveness. Radio buffs have begun to cling to portables full time as though they were life-support systems. Thus meandering music has become commonplace in every metropolis and conspicuously so in the big ones such as Detroit, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. While the portables are played ostensibly for private enjoyment, the music is freely shared with the world-but not always to applause. Indeed, many captive listeners consider the force-fed entertainment an assault. Whatever else it may be, the new wave of unavoidable music is pervasive-and the dial is rarely turned...
...Administration insists that the U.S.'s present 13% inflation rate can be tamed by gently slowing the economy. Its program is to: 1) cling to the tattered wage-price guidelines*; 2) hold the fiscal 1980 budget deficit to $29 billion, down from $32 billion in 1979; and 3) encourage the Federal Reserve Board to continue to keep a firm rein on the money supply. But most non-Government economists believe that inflation will be curbed only by the recession that they predict will begin this summer...
...SYMBOLS themselves are meaningless, like words without perceptions. And to cling to any symbol--whether to be mindlessly patriotic or trendgoing punk--is decadent. And this is where the angst either emerges, or turns the knife inward. This is where confused fools lose themselves in their symbols and overdose, and it is where artists use their symbols, change them, flex them, adapt them, to express their angst. It's facing reality: Iggy Pop is a fool, Sid Vicious is dead, Johnny Rotten is dying, and Patti Smith is fucking with the future.*CrimsonLaura J. Levine...
Rather than studying the message of the great teachers such as Moses, Christ or Confucius, Chitrabhanu says men cling to the figures of the leader. For instance, he says, missing the essence of Christ's words, men instead built institutions around him and squabbled about the form of outer trappings...