Providing more mature material, publishers reason, is a good way to maintain devotion to books among the teenagers who are scooping up young-adult fiction and making it the most popular category in literature, with a crossover readership that is also attracting millions of adults.
There was certainly more than a hint of opportunism, but the song has maintained devotion, and is arguably Bowie's most famous song, thanks to the epic sci-fi production, catchy close harmonies, intriguing narrative and the all-too-human dialogue between Major Tom and Ground Control that drifts closer to pathos with each passing minute.
Two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan rage on, the Middle East still rattles its cages in the Gaza strip and elsewhere, while America maintains its devotion to Israel.
Mr. Zinsser stubbornly maintained his devotion.
In retirement Edwards maintained his devotion to Columbia sports.
QUESTION FROM SHAWN: Do you know if it is common for practicing Catholics to disregard or ignore the Pope but still maintain a devotion to their faith?
As a new exhibition makes clear, the artist, who died at 92 in 2015, steadfastly maintained a devotion to form, color and plane.
But among the many readers who privately maintained their devotion to the old poet was Robert Frost, in many ways Longfellow's true successor.
Since Mr. Blass died in 2002, the company that owns his name has struggled to maintain the devotion of his old customers.
Through years of poverty, Mr. Vitolo, a modest man who works as a janitor at Jacobi Medical Center and prays that his two grown daughters find good husbands, has maintained this devotion.
