Word: clingingly
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Throughout virtually his whole life, Reagan seemed to cling to an unchanging vision of an America that the Hollywood of his youth tried both to express and create. It was a Norman Rockwell vision of elm-shaded village life, of freckle-faced boys going fishing, of parading on July 4; it was a Horatio Alger vision of hard work and thrift and virtue rewarded. If the Gipper died young, he nonetheless died a hero. That was the America in which Reagan wanted Americans to believe, and in which many Americans themselves wanted to believe. And to a surprising extent, they...
Eight of them cling to the river, one languishes near Wigglesworth Hall and three huddle around their very own private library, nearly a mile away from the rest. But if the University’s current plan for new construction in Allston goes through, all of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses will soon cluster around the Charles. And, thanks to a generally constructive process at least nominally involving students and faculty as well as administrators, Harvard’s new Allston campus has the potential to meet student demands and change the face of the College for the better...
...from the United States Supreme Court halting the dissemination of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Fortunately, hours after the federal appeals court in Boston denied a similar request, the Supreme Court refused to grant the order. As the fight gets tougher for gay marriage opponents, they continue to cling to deceptive and self-righteous arguments about the sanctity of marriage and the immorality of homosexuality. Yet it remains unclear why the meaning of marriage should change simply because others in committed, loving relationships are also allowed to marry, and why, even if the notion of matrimony is expanded...
...cling to your ideologies so firmly, you trivialize history. And if you trivialize history you destroy education,” he said...
Apparently diamonds are not only forever; they're for everyone, all the time. That raises a question: If diamonds have gone mass market, what about glamour, that mysterious quality that used to cling to the rocks and the fortunate few who wore them? Glamour once was an elusive quality embodied by aristocratic goddesses like Grace Kelly and Princess Diana. The secret to their appeal? The usual stuff--beauty, money, star-crossed romance--plus mystery, strong personal style and scarcity...