Word: scrapingly
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...their part, the G.O.P. will probably end up in a city that never even considered bidding: San Diego. President Nixon seems taken with the idea of holding his renomination convention only a half-hour's hop from the Western White House helipad. The city has managed to scrape together adequate facilities, but some of the townsfolk are less than enthusiastic. Democratic Mayor Frank Curran pointed out that the city might lay out more than it would get in return. "Some of those delegates bring their own lunches and booze," he scoffed. "Some even sleep in their cars...
...that's from fear at a distance. At the core, beyond the clutter of catch phrases and impudent imprudence, lie a bunch of people who want desperately to scrape away the sludge that covers everybody's sensitive humanity. It's no longer possible to be an English major out for a literary piece. If one does not look beyond the veneer of a "movement," one will not expand emotional contacts. And it is far easier to dump on things and people than to allow them an emotional hearing. Honest friendship allows an abandonment of the pretentious pose of self-reliance...
...less threatens to shut down New York City for good unless he gets more money. The Governor responds with sympathetic noises about how he would like to help, but what can a fella do? Then somehow the two, with the reluctant assistance of the state legislature, manage to scrape together enough money to keep the city operating at its usual siege level...
...which the system nourishes? Waiting for the check, asking for money for special needs, always to be given things rather than doing for oneself, creates a unique dependency, separate from the simple need for sustenance. All factors conspire to keep a welfare person down: the day-to-day money scrape which prohibits planning, the bad neighborhoods, unsatisfactory schools, lack of autonomy...
...dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...