Word: clingingly
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...from Homer to modern politics. He gets down pat the earnest remarks that bubble from sophomoric lips ("I absolutely agree with the ancient Greeks"). He knows how hard it is for any boy to keep a secret, and how the fears and fond hopes of a father and mother cling like leeches to a boy's guilty skin. He knows just how rumor rules adolescent whims and how instinctive is the yearning for gangs, pledges and mysterious cabals...
...overemphasis on speed" -the rush to be first with the news. But a more basic reason is that U.S. newspapers, pursuing the ideal of "objectivity," "lean over backward so far that it makes the news business merely a transmission belt for pretentious phonies." Most newspapers, says Davis, still cling to the rule that news columns must print only as many sides or facts of an issue as a reporter has found. Interpretation must be kept on the editorial page. But printing the news that way does not help most readers to arrive at the truth. "How many readers have enough...
...majority also believes that Communism means peace. French Reds cling to this idea so firmly that four out of five (78%) expect to remain neutral in case of a war between the U.S. and Russia. Most Communist voters admired Soviet Russia (69% actually believed that the standard of living of Russian workers is equal to or higher than their own), but at a distance. Asked how the party could improve its propaganda, many observed: "Less talk about the U.S.S.R...
...often answered "Never, never!" to such proposals. But at last she weakened and agreed, suggesting they live with her mother. To this, he growled: "The man should bear rule in the house and not the woman. This is an eternal axiom . . . It is the nature of a woman . . . to cling to the man for support and direction...
...graceful performances of Carla del Poggio and Jacques Sernas who play the couple. They are the victims of the class war. Sernas, an intelligent youth, wants to accept the new conditions and learn to manipulate the new machines, but cannot do so without opposing his family and friends who cling stubbornly to tradition. In his failure to arrange a compromise we see the meaning of the film--the defeat of both sides...