Word: clingingly
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...many ways, the Great Coke Debate revealed something about the current state of the American psyche. In a world of ceaseless change, people cling desperately to the known and the given. The old Latin Mass is gone, the phone company has been broken up, Walter Cronkite is no longer on the evening news. Throughout those changes, Coke was always there, a misty memory from childhood, a rock of ages. "Certain things in our psychological environment have to stay constant because we're in such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York...
...deeply Christian nation, this King becomes a modern-day Christ figure, dying for our collective sins of virulent white racism and frustrated black retaliatory rage, and leading us to a color-blind promised land that was our American destiny all along. But unfortunately for those who would cling to this fraudulent King and the sanitized version of American history he represents, no matter how many Apple Computer commercials or elementary school Black History Month celebrations he shows his face at, the false King cannot ever stamp out the real King’s greatest legacy...
...come to honor a particular nationality—should prove so unifying. Part of the appeal is that it demands little of participants, other than wearing green and drinking; there are none of the expectations associated with Valentine’s Day, none of the vaguely patriotic obligations that cling to the Fourth of July, none of the gift-buying, and little of the overt religious trappings of Christmas...
...call to anyone who is hanging on to a one-size-fits-all view of teaching math and scientific subjects. Research confirms what perceptive teachers know: different people (whether they differ by gender, age or simply nature's diversity) learn at different times and in different ways. We cannot cling to a naive assumption that most students will learn in the same way if they just apply themselves. We know how to teach mathematics for all students--by using not just symbols but strategies that target visual and perceptive ways of learning, and engaging students in challenging problems so they...
...Japan's task now is to decide how to best answer these assaults. Cling to core values that brought success in the past? Or boldly step out into the new world? Conservative voices are being heard. Tokyo has opened up a debate over proposed changes to the American-style constitution that was imposed on the country at the end of World War II, and the makeover of Japan's mission statement has been seized by nationalistic lawmakers as an opportunity to reinforce Japanese culture. A subcommittee involved in the revision recently submitted proposals that recommended, for example, restoring Shinto...