Word: persistency
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Independence has been an emotional cause for more than a century. In Puerto Rico's universities, among older intellectuals and even within a faction of the ruling party, various shades of independentista sentiment persist. Alfonso Valdes Jr., a prosperous businessman and former Chamber of Commerce president, sighs and says: "Independence is very close to my heart. It is a romantic idea and deep down, emotionally, most Puerto Ricans feel sympathy for it. But it is impractical for as long as we can see. It just would not work." Adds Alex Maldonado, editor of the pro-Commonwealth El Mundo...
...sixties and the demise of some of the more obvious villians only made it clear, to those who still cared, how little immediate causes and obvious villians are at the root of what is wrong. The United States government still allies itself with murderers and exploiters, and vast inequities persist, and larger systems still manipulate peoples' lives. None of what has happened--the NLF's victory, or Nixon's resignation, or reforms in the CIA--seem to have much to do with these root problems; indeed, the changes of the last few years will only allow their causes to continue...
...nature of things; in the abstract, it does not have to be. But if the world is in need of the most major sorts of changes, I do not really think I will see them come about; I think with a few minor changes, the sadness is likely to persist, and whatever reforms have happened in the last few years have only strengthened that view. I don't like to say so, but I think the idea of a vastly different world is a lost cause, and the problem now is how, believing that but hoping no less for change...
...with a treacherous streak of total affection for the Cavendishes. And that's not the end of it, by half. In 1927 they did not have to count the cast. A Royal Family is a love letter to the theater and those who, contrary to all sound reason, persist in loving...
...Dorst, a West German playwright who was a P.O.W. in the U.S., has based his play. He asks an enormous imaginative effort from a European or U.S. audience: the moral issues of World War II still seem crystal clear to the countries that fought Hitler. Stereotypes about people therefore persist. Yet Dorst commands respect for Hamsun as a man who above everything else must be true to himself- whether he is right or wrong is to him irrelevant. With masterly compression, the novelist's years of trial are made into a resounding study of an extreme form of personal...