Word: grovelings
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...people what Michael Harrington, one of his favorite authors, saw: the seed beneath the snow--in the midst of a grade-grubbing, money-chasing, selfish, banal society he saw individuals who wanted desperately to love, desperately to be accepted, and who wanted to cooperate in harmony, rather than grovel and cut throats in competition. And--perhaps more than he ever suspected--he had an effect on his friends. Maybe he really did help us see the seed beneath the snow, the seed within ourselves and the seed in others...
...follow the game plan, roll with the punches, take the path of least resistance. The good life rubs off on every Harvard student, each one gaining a familiarity with comfort. Contempt for this comfort is rare, most are willing to passively accept it, a few even grovel for it. If you do not make any decision about what you want to do, in essence you will have decided to take the easy road and become coopted...
...shoulders resentfully among the heedless rich and the heedless young who are the villains of Macdonald's recurrent daydream, and ours. Roughly at first, then with a rough man's compassion, he rubs their noses in mortality, the loser's truth. See the proud millionaire grovel, as Archer spades up the moldering past! See the sneering teenager whine, as Archer lays bare the certain decay that lies ahead...
...shroud of sanctimony is so oppressive that the movie's random moments of lightheartedness make one almost grovel with relief. The one good musical number portrays the selection of an author for the Declaration of Independence, with each member of the selection committee fobbing off the assignment on another, and all joining in a jaunty chorus that parodies, fleetingly, the idea that any of them should be singing or dancing at all. Sherman Edwards' songs are usually reserved for important occasions like a speech on the shared immorality of slavery, or the apparently telepathic communications between John Adams...
...this context of continued American intransigence, capped by Porter's statement that the representatives of the Vietnamese liberation forces would have to grovel on their knees before him in order to get the talks resumed, that the North Vietnamese offensive unfolded last week. And since the offensive began, the U.S. position has hardened even further. For the first time since 1968, the American command has begun systematic, round-the-clock bombing inside North Vietnam. And Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced late last week that the bombing would not stop until North Vietnam began "serious" negotiations with the United States...