Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rabbis denounced da's peculiar obsession as a defilement of the language of Scripture. Some fanatics who heard young Ben-Zion talking to his dog in Hebrew seized the dog and killed it. There were other kinds of opposition as well. Immigrants who had been nurtured in Yiddish clung emotionally to the language of the Diaspora. Even Zionist Leader Theodor Herzl rejected Ben-Yehuda's campaign as impractical...
...Representatives, the GOP lost some 26 seats, more than twice the midterm average; in almost no case did a conservative challenger unseat a liberal incumbent. In the Senate, despite the fact that the vast majority of seats up for grabs were held by Democrats, the Republicans only barely clung to their slim majority. At the state level, Democratic candidates took seven of the 14 contested governor ships previously held by Republicans. They also won control of the legislatures of some 35 states...
...After the one-mile mark--where she sat in 30th place--the hilly course veered off into the woods, away from spectators. It was there that Gallagher made her move, passing 19 competitors to emerge 1 5 miles later in 11th place, a spot she clung...
While Disney's successors have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...
This perhaps is best taken and clung to as the focal point of the play: the particularly modern form of personal inauthenticity, of plastic and degrading relationships, of--yes, once again--alienation. Rauch obliterates most of the political alienation which Auden ties to the malaise of the individual. The director instand emphasizes the distorted manner in which the Victorian sexual logacy has been incorporated into...