Word: clingingness
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The Makiokas are an Osaka-based clan of proper Japanese who, unlike proper Bostonians, have dipped into capital. The four sisters who dominate Author Tanizaki's story are snobbish, overbred, illness and accident-prone, genteelly displaced persons in a Japan that is flexing its muscles for World War II...
As the angry sea poured into the holds to make an expanding porridge of the barley stowed below, those of the Pamir's crew who had escaped the fury of the pounding wreckage clung desperately to nets on the heaved-up windward side of the already sinking ship. When...
In the fourth and final attempt to storm Cassino, 13 divisions of the Fifth and Eighth Armies, backed by overwhelming fire and airpower, smashed into the four German divisions clinging to the shattered defenses. At first the Germans held on, then retired to the north. It was only half a...
The girls are a study of Gallic contrasts. Mick Micheyl is sunny; Juliette Greco is subterranean. In her simple sheath or plain skirt and white broadcloth shirtwaist, Mick affects the saucy style of a French street urchin-the impertinent type Parisians call un titi. Juliette, in her clinging, floor-length...
Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been...