Word: clingingly
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...Narrowing Path. Paradoxically, uncertainty has also helped to create the polarization that is one of the dominant facts of America today. Those attached to the old ideas and ideals cling to them even more tenaciously; those attracted to the new fight for it with greater energy. The path narrows between the new and the old. Today, says Astronomer Walter Orr Roberts, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "it is necessary to live with enough conservatism to resist the easy abandonment of concepts, but enough flexibility to be able, when necessary, to switch rather than fight...
...Cling to me & I promise you'll drown...
...cling to the world no better than a ring on a skeleton's finger...
Familiarity is the most important basis of this community. Edwin Barrett, a member of the ISSP program, said, "I've grown up with black people. I'm accustomed to them. I feel most relaxed when I'm with them. This is the reason most black people cling together...
...brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must get out. He realizes that the society that obsesses him is committing...