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The clinging to these two idées fixes is, in some ways, a Republican failure to accept victory.
Newscasters spoke of the Flower Revolution, of the possibility that England might at last stop clinging to ancient protocol and allow its citizens to display the normal range of human emotion.
If this seems far-fetched, consider that a major American silver polish company began when a Mr. Wright of New Hampshire extricated one of his cows from a slough in a wet part of a field and was tipped off by the whitish mud clinging to the animal's feet to the presence of what proved to be a surprisingly large deposit of calcium-rich diatomaceous earth.
In an age when Ronald Reagan has slipped into the haze of Alzheimer's disease, when Susan Faludi writes movingly of males clinging to stereotypical notions of machismo as they're laid off their factory jobs and symbolically robbed of potency, it can put a lump in your throat to watch Schickel building--like the hero in Field of Dreams --a shrine to the Dad whom so many elements of the culture have come to undervalue.
Bush's top foreign-policy specialist faults the Clinton-Gore administration with clinging to Russian reformers' empty rhetoric.