Word: longing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field of asphalt (one of 1,400 in his discount empire) will suck a bit more of the commercial life out of Greenfield and similar towns in the same radius. Another comfortable old building with arched windows and high ceilings may have to be padlocked. Not so long ago they were all open, and the square filled up on Saturday night, when neighbors came to buy and gossip. Prices were less important then than people. A caring society thrived there and helped to sustain the values that politicians now like to talk about as they see order and meaning melt...
...human community, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place," Kentucky farmer- philosopher Wendell Berry told Iowans last year in a lecture on the work of local culture. "Country people more and more live like city people, and so connive in their own ruin. More and more country people, like city people, allow their economic and social standards to be set by television and salesmen and outside experts...
...will be difficult for the U.S. to free Iranian assets so long as American hostages are being held in Lebanon...
...long overdue," said Steven D. Busby, amember of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power,known by the acronym...
...used to play a long time ago-when the Bee Gees sang in front of sellout crowds. Since the bigger kids always used to hog the baseball field, we first-graders would have the large field in the back of our school (San Benito in Humacao. Puerto Rico) all to ourselves. There were about 15 of us and every game was Brazil against Argentina. Problem was, everyone wanted to be Pele; no one liked the Argentines...