Word: clingingly
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Whimpering Puppies. In The Golden Fruits, the delivery of a critical opinion can be an appeal for love-or an attempt at assassination. A fashionable author, who has been unwise enough to admit he does not like the book, is forced to cling to a dowdy female guest for support. Even as he does so, he burns with shame and a sense of "degrading promiscuity." As for the woman, "she listens to him," Miss Sarraute writes, with the "face of a rapt fanatic . . . and an inadequately furnished head into which come to settle perhaps, taking up all the room...
Since World War II, the number of Paris concierges-who are about 95% women-has dropped from 80,000 to 64,000, and the decline is continuing, largely because most new apartment buildings dispense with concierges entirely. Yet those who still have jobs cling to them as long as possible because, on retirement, they are entitled to only a minimal social security payment. Touched by the dismal prospect facing aged concierges, Union President Laffon raised money from the government, property owners and insurance companies for a retirement home to open this spring at Lardy, 27 miles from Paris. When completed...
...University doctor reported that some sophomores find that they cannot bear to be alone, which may lead them to cling closely to one person. Often they try to escape loneliness by submerging themselves in a "cause," like disarmament, or an extra-curricular activity, such as the Loeb Drama Center...
...colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres as endowment. Though yet to feel the cling of ivy, Raymond has everything else: tutorials for its 124 students, a scholarly faculty of 17, comprehensive exams, and a bold taste for guest speakers from Birchers to Zennists to Martin Luther King. It is generalist to the core. "Students who want vocational training should go elsewhere," says Burns...
...Communist Party has viewed the students with considerable suspicion ever since the period of the Hundred Flowers, when student manifestoes and posters denouncing government excesses were slapped on every space available. Some tattered bits of these inflammatory posters still cling to the walls and ceilings at Peking University, which has an enrollment of 100,000. Among the thousands of Chinese refugees pouring into Hong Kong in the past year and a half, there has been a small trickle of engineers and intellectuals, former believers who are now disillusioned. They are not party members, and the number is not large...