Word: clingingly
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...Arnow, a year at $200 a week. Ward wires the news to Des Moines. Reagan is near ecstasy. He pours out his heart in a two-page longhand letter to Ward. "Sometimes those last few days seem like something I read in a book, but with your wire to cling to I get back to realization (sic) with a very satisfactory bump. Wheaties . . . has a high- pressure man here working on me with some wild idea about sticking around for another baseball season. Overwhelming as is this reluctance to let me depart, nevertheless I remain California-bound...
...legacy is written most urgently, and perhaps most hauntingly, in the faces of the Amerasian children who cling with desperation to almost any foreigner they encounter. Before opening Ho Chi Minh City's doors to Western newsmen, the government tried to shut away many of these children in a nearby detention center. Last week one boy, barely in his teens, who had escaped the roundup, began holding onto an American journalist, writing down what looked like a G.I. serial number and repeating, over and over, "Papa." Within minutes, a policeman seized the boy and dragged him away in handcuffs...
...thing the West does know about the Soviet Union is that the people who run it cling to their posts either until their comrades turn against them and throw them out, as happened with Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev, or until Comrade Death intervenes, as occurred with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and, last week, with Konstantin Chernenko. One of the more ironic flaws of the Soviet system is that while it is dedicated to the acquisition, consolidation and extension of power, while it prides itself on discipline and the subordination of the individual to the institution...
...nothing seems worth dying for. All our familiar complaints about the lack of heroism in modern life may be traced to our servitude to time. Save time, beat the clock. The only real way a clock may be beaten is to pay no attention to it, to rediscover privacy, cling to it, hoard it; to determine one's own proper unhurried pace. We often apologize for wasting time, when all we mean is that we have violated someone else's standards of progress...
DESPITE THE TALK of a new liberalism--scrapping the old ideals but presenting new and provocative ones--the question remains, what ideals? What will an American public, which dislikes struggle and won't sacrifice its property, cling to in the name of liberalism...