Word: cravings
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Since not too many people attend Harvard matches, wrestling doesn't offer the notoriety most athletes crave. "A wrestler's satisfaction." Coleman explained. "lies in the knowledge that he must succeed or fail on his own. There is no one to fall back...
...many experts believe that the affections! function is the only one left that justifies the continued support of the family as a social institution. As "community contacts" become more "formal and segmental," says Hill, people turn increasingly to the family "as the source of affectional security that we all crave...
...their identities or collective memories. The great fear is that of being stranded in a void, of being so alone that one's very existence is in doubt. As Miss Frame expresses it in the poetry that threads the novel: "It is the company of weather I crave in this weatherless room/the thermometer reads me only." In the Waipori of the future, the problem of establishing existence would be even more terrifying. If a plastic tree topples into the vinyl grass, does it make a sound if the forest is not electronically bugged...
...this century, stemmed from the cruelties now worked upon the people. "A man," he wrote, "can be simply or savagely-above all, pointlessly-wiped out, regardless of what he is, means, hopes, dreams or might become. This reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot." "Perhaps the great sin," he felt, "is to say: 'It will heal; it has healed...
What happens to little girls who actively bid for the approval of other little girls their age? They get it. And what happens to little boys who crave popularity with other little boys? They are scorned. This somewhat unsettling conclusion has been drawn from an experiment staged at two suburban Boston grade schools by Psychologist Lane K. Conn of Boston's Northeastern University. With two research assistants. who suggested the experiment, Conn rated 192 fifth-and sixth-graders on a scale that measured their need for approval. Then his subjects were asked, among other things, to pick the three...