Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of Prince Henry, the days of empire building, were the height of Portugal's national splendor. It is no surprise that the Portuguese cling to their African possessions as a last vestige of former grandeur...
Everywhere came the plaintive calls. But there was little that those lucky enough to find solid footing or something to cling to could do in the darkness to aid those engulfed by the flood, smothered in the landslides or caught in burning buildings. Commercial radio stations were knocked off the air by the cut-off of power. A civil defense station, using emergency power, tried to fashion some kind of order out of the chaos. "If you find a body, do not touch it. Call," said an announcer. "Stay in your homes and do not drink the water...
...worst commercial the best commercial? Some Madison Avenue admen seem to think so. They believe that the viewer remembers best the spot that is most insulting to his intelligence and irritating to his sensibility. The doctrine is probably wrong, but its adherents cling to it as firmly as any Maoist grasping the little red book. Meanwhile the viewer has suffered in silence...
While the poor whites simply cling to the more comfortable past with a blind desperation, these new suburbanites are painfully split. They see the America which shaped them and taught them to love her receding into the past along with their rural heritage, but the change is partly of their own choice, and that is their dilemma. They have come to the city to become middle-class, to escape the country's simplicity, coarseness, and poverty, but the country still lingers in them, and compels nostalgia. Along with the wealth and sophistication of the city have come new problems which...
...choices which faced other anticommunist leftists in the collision of the American and Soviet superstates. Orwell had tried desperately to carve out a place for a radical democratic socialism which would have no need either to defend the tergiversations of Stalin and his heirs in Moscow or to cling to American capitalism, which he regarded with contempt and horror. During the last years of his life he felt the opportunity for such a movement slipping away, and one is left to wonder how he would have responded when the Cold War began in earnest and the official anticomminists destroyed...