Word: clung
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...Yearbook, at long last, has been weaned. In past years, the people at 52 Dunster Street clung as compulsively to a dull, comprehensive, list-everything format as to a mother's breast. Annually, the editors let the Yearbook organize them, instead of exerting a creative influence, and the end-product portrayed the Ivy League College of University Hall brochures instead of the Harvard that any senior knows...
...sustain the customary level of mediocrity (although Richard Kimmel's drawings of the Masters are superb). The catalogue of house activities, the pats on and knives in the backs of the Masters, the listless recapitulation of the style peculiar to a particular House ("An eighteenth-century atmosphere has always clung about Adams House like a pervasive, occasionally smothering mist"), should be abandoned. Why not a unified essay on the House system, the Masters, House sports, or resident tutors...
...Terre Haute. Father John Paul was a religious fanatic who rarely worked. Mother Sarah was a warm-blooded mystical pagan who rarely worried. There were ten Dreiser children, most of them on the wild side, one of them, Paul Dresser, destined for fame as a songwriter. Lonely, nervous Theodore clung to his mother's skirts and suckled himself on fantasies of success. Restless to realize them, he dropped out of high school after one year, worked sporadically, somehow got into Indiana State University-again dropped out after one year...
...mock-minatory farewell address to London's Pilgrims Society, Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., jolly, Cambridge-educated Sir Patrick Dean, 56, noted that the only other Cantabrigian to have represented the Crown in Washington was Sir Edward Thornton, who clung to the post for 14 years (1867-81), longer than any other British diplomat. Said Sir Patrick: "You have been warned...
...Tamil-speaking minority who work the island's tea plantations. Thousands of leftists swarmed in the road outside Temple Trees, the Prime Minister's official residence, shouting, "Victory!" and "Don't resign!" At the insistence of her Marxist Cabinet ministers, the buxom Prime Minister stoutly clung to power, even after Governor General William Gopallawa asked her to quit. But at last she caved in, and victory went to Dudley Senanayake after midnight of the third day. Wreathed in smiles, he called on the Governor General, bearing a letter of endorsement from the Federal Party leadership that enabled...