Word: clingingly
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...speech to the faithful. And then he was there, on the giant screen. Gates appeared, amid boos and hisses, to announce that Microsoft would invest in and cooperate with Apple. Jobs is disappointed by the "childish behavior" of those who booed. "I'm sure some people want to cling to old identities. I was a little disappointed at the unprofessional reaction. On the one hand, people are dying to get the latest release of Microsoft Office on their Macs, and on the other hand, they're booing the CEO of the company that puts it out. It seems really stupid...
...film's offhand observations about the life-styles of the poor and nutty are goofily persuasive (Jerry padlocks his refrigerator and keeps its contents in combination-locked canisters). Caught up in the movie's intricacies, we go along with it, momentarily distant kin to those people who cling desperately to some convoluted explanation for a national tragedy. Conspiracy theory may be reason's most rickety scaffold, but it is more comforting than its alternative, which is chaos theory. Wouldn't want to see a movie about that, would...
...abortions performed after six months, under milewide exceptions for vague reasons of mental health, Democratic Senator Thomas Daschle introduced a bill that would have banned all abortions in which the baby could have lived outside the womb, which these days means after about 23 weeks. Yet Republicans preferred to cling to their own doomed bill rather than give up a potent political issue or accept Daschle's exception to the ban for women whose pregnancies could cause "grievous physical injury"--even though that closes the mental-health loophole. If it's disregard for life that turns girls like Melissa into...
...daily interaction of students in classes, athletics and extracurricular activities tends to promote a very diverse atmosphere. However, students of the same ethnic group often cling together and form communities which may become insular. Minority students in particular often congregate in order to develop cultural bonds. The Interethnic Day of Service, organized by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Minority Student Alliance, provided a common goal to give otherwise disparate groups a unified objective: to lend a hand to the community. Approximately 45 students of various ethnic backgrounds headed to locations in Cambridge and Boston to serve the community by performing...
...predominantly career bureaucrats, par-tisan activists, shallow entertainers, mediocre musicians, salvation gurus, shock artists and others who make a living dredging the murky depths of society. In a society where the social fabric is frayed and there is little role for human values, any icon that people can cling to seems a good one. The process that makes most of your list influential is the same one that makes people join crazy cults that promise instant family, instant society, instant salvation. There were three people on your list who have the stature and the ability to provide true moral leadership...