Word: persistently
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...Martin made clear in his first newspaper interview that, despite all the current rhetoric about an "honorable peace," the Nixon administration is still bound by a fierce anti-communism which requires continued support at almost any cost of a corrupt and illegitimate dictatorship. Martin and the White House persist in maintaining that the way to resolve Vietnam's problems and prevent an ultimate communist takeover is a large infusion of military and economic...
...because Lesser doesn't let the irony falter even for a minute--"I have a fixt Confidence, Gentlemen, in you all," Macheath explains, taking out his revolver--the love some of his numerous wives persist in feeling for him, even though they know that in a depraved world love is a sad mistake, can serve as the standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband...
...Students think seriously about religion, though not the way they did a century ago. They aren't going to fight great battles over the Trinity. But they are fascinated by the fact that religion is almost ineradicable. They wonder what has enabled it to persist all these centuries...
Even West Germany, which officially disdains the sale of armaments, is said to be back in the arms business. Despite government denials, reports persist that Bonn is negotiating to build a tank-parts factory in Teheran. Private German armsmakers report soaring sales to the Middle East and tacit government encouragement of any deal likely to win favor with the oil exporters. Says a veteran weapons dealer in Bonn: "If you know the secret word, you can get an arms export license to any Arab country in eight days. The secret word...
...were mainsprings of action, the very life of Greek epic and biblical saga, of medieval tale and Eastern chronicle. Modern science and psychology have learned to explain much of what was once inexplicable, but mysteries remain. The workings of the mind still resist rational analysis; reports of psychic phenomena persist. Are they all accident, illusion? Or are there other planes and dimensions of experience and memory? Could there be a paranormal world exempt from known natural...