Word: persistent
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...important to the nation's culture as its own Civil War. Viet Nam, in fact, grew into a kind of spiritual civil war in the U.S. Thus, even if the physical battle, or at least U.S. participation in it, recedes, its traumatic effect upon the American self-image will persist. The war has gone on so long, has so distorted American life, that in a sense it is difficult to imagine exactly what the nation will become without it. Perhaps, optimistically, the light at the end of the tunnel might now at least give Americans a truer vision of themselves...
...games into the season, and we've seen the best and worst of Crimson football. But will the evil and good persist as the season unfolds? Are Crone's boys as good as the BU game? Are the deep men as bad as Pennington made them look? With Harvard's first real test rearing up this weekend in New York City against Columbia, Restic has to find out and fast. Columbia is too good a team to foot around with Harvard if the Crimson can't cut it. Frank Navarro's boys think they...
...have done. Most of them have been able to understand and accept the importance of sex education but a few unthinking students and parents have always been threatened by the course content and managed to influence public school administrators to apply pressures to stop me. But I persist. Such articles as yours are a great help...
Then why does the custom of August vacations persist? Partly it is sheer habit, but partly also the crush begins with the large industries, whose managers claim that only by shutting down altogether can major maintenance be done and everyone be given a holiday without an unacceptable slowdown of the assembly lines. After the factories close, a whole chain of related businesses follows suit. Then the food, clothing and other industries schedule their vacations for the "dead" period. Even so, Europeans seem in no hurry to change. When Italian workers were recently polled on their vacation preferences, almost 80% said...
...subject of women, Jews and blacks. As internal aliens to his mind-"strangers"-they aroused his fear and consequently his hate. But after making Shakespeare out to be a conscious bigot, Fiedler argues that Shakespeare, quite unconsciously, had delved into "stereotypes and myths, impulses and attitudes" that "still persist in the dark corners of our hearts, the dim periphery of our dreams." So Shakespeare is both guilty and not guilty, a peculiar ambivalence that unsettles the whole book...