Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also knew where his genius lay, wisely rejected both the Wagnerian influence and the broader version of the Italian verismo style as practiced by Mascagni and Leoncavallo. Instead, he clung to his own romantic, melodious, bittersweet tales shot through with a uniquely warm lyricism and underscored with lushly singing strings. A painstaking workman who admired clarity ("The black scores," he said, "are the easiest to fake"), he left as his legacy only eleven operas. But 34 years after his death, the world of opera has not found a composer who can speak to the universal audience Puccini commands...
Beyond Nationalism. Politically, Muñoz clung to his aspiration for eventual Puerto Rican independence until 1944. "That year," he recalls, "the Popular Party got 64% of the vote as against 38% in 1940. The Planning Board had written a paper on the economic consequences of independence, of being shut out of U.S. tariff walls. A Tariff Commission economist came down here, and I had two or three long talks with him. I said: 'Of course Puerto Rico cannot be independent in the same way as the Philippines, which have greater resources and lower population density...
...slim, blonde, pregnant 16-year-old stubbornly clung to her story. Sally insisted that she was still a virgin. Many a doctor might have exploded. But Dr. Arthur Roth, 37, knows and likes adolescents too well for that. As founder of the five-year-old Teen-Age Clinic at Kaiser Foundation Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., Roth is an expert in a new medical specialty - "ephebiatrics" - that closes the gap between specialized treatment for children and for adults. Last week, having discovered the family causes of Sally's mental block-building, he persuaded her to go to the obstetrician...
Delegates of the 850,000 Southern Presbyterians who call themselves the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. wrangled over two controversial issues at their 98th General Assembly last week in Charlotte, N.C. They took a new position on divorce, clung stubbornly to their stand against segregation...
Twelve treatments were enough. Smith and Hale reported that each group had its social order turned upside down. Its top hen became its bottom hen. In two out of three groups, the bottom hen rose to the top. In all groups, the upper middle-class hen-No. 2-clung most tenaciously to its position. The No. 25 needed twice as many shocks as the others to accept a new place in society...