Word: clingingly
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...that "why" to which today's art viewer must cling for dear life. It may be futile to insist any longer that one thing is art and another is not. Let everything be called art. But if so, it is more necessary than ever, in a time when to mention beauty has become a gaucherie, to decide that one work but not another has authority; that this one but not that one expands the senses or compels the imagination. The gallerygoer cannot stop the tastemaker from talking. But he can stop listening quite so docilely. Ultimately...
Above all, as one analyst puts it, "fear is disappearing." Save for the Negroes and the Puerto Ricans, most minorities no longer feel beleaguered. And therefore their need to cling together and seek out a protector who will tell them what to do is diminishing. Says Illinois State Representative Abner Mikva: "The Polish community in Chicago, for instance, has progressed to the point where there are no longer specifically Polish interests to be protected or promoted. If middle-class Poles are unhappy about the Democrats, it is because of civil rights or welfarism as threats to their economic wellbeing." They...
...rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...
...even though the amendment is dead for this session of Congress, the danger remains that Dirksen will cling to the hope of passing it at some future date, and may devote his considerable power as minority leader to his crusade. Dirksen's concern is needed for more important legislation. With President Johnson's once-formidable legislative phalanx fragmenting, the Administration needs Republican help badly in Congress. Dirksen has the ability to deliver the kind of bipartisan support that Johnson himself gave President Eisenhower, or to with-hold it -- as he did over the new civil rights bill. With vital legislation...
Jealous Faculties. Latin American universities are further plagued by inefficient administration. Most schools are loose-knit amalgamations of once-separate faculties that jealously cling to their own identities and offer duplicate courses. At the University of São Paulo, which consists of 16 separate institutes and 68 affiliated units, chemistry courses are taught in 22 different buildings. Costs consequently multiply. Some third-rate regional universities in Brazil spend up to $4,000 per student for each year of study-about the annual cost of an education at Harvard...