Word: clingingly
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...says Kerr, modern playwrights must offer them once again "a robust and companionable outsized experience," full of sound, color, movement, conflict, and the "sort of magical speech" which can best be achieved in verse. ("Every major serious play-and the lion's share of the comedies-that we cling to out of the past are verse plays...
...agricultural problem is the major structural weakness of the USSR today, the study concludes. Peansants cling to their Jand, while leaders threaten to remove it in order to make Communist theory closer to Soviet practices...
...lost any real meaning. The liberal's distorted myth of private self-sufficiency in all things has been exploded; his complacent expectation of unchecked progress has been overwhelmed by social disorder and private discontent; his confidence in Rationality has been shattered beyond repair. To what, then, does he cling nowadays? To the feeble hope, ordinarily, of some sort of brummagem Utopia of creature-comforts, characterized by equality of condition, uniformity of life and thought, pervasive state regulation and the obliteration of traditional morality...
...Europe in which nations would progressively sacrifice chunks of their sovereignty for the common good. Pierre Mendès-France, France's new man of the hour, has substituted a tougher, harder-bargaining diplomacy in which nations make accommodations and pacts with one another, but jealously cling to their sovereign authority. In this he has the powerful support of the British Foreign Office, which instinctively prefers the more pragmatic, national approach. At the London Conference, the new pragmatism paid off triumphantly in the seven-nation Western European Union...
...still the village spellbinder, the favorite of India's masses. The Congress Party, riddled with corruption and disliked by Indians at large, has no one else of Nehru's stature (Indians sometimes refer to Congress politicos as "pygmies in high chairs") and cannot hope to cling to power without him. If the threat to resign does not in itself quiet the opposition, Nehru is safe in gambling that his actual retirement from the scene for a few months next year would have the politicians crying for him to come back, stronger than ever...