Word: yearn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes Mumford, is the welfare state, which has created a helpless, dependent populace by ministering to its every material need-a common charge. Yet it is easy to fault the welfare state now that its benefits are taken for granted. What about those outsiders-blacks, for example-who still yearn to sample its delights? Are their stomachs to be denied for the sake of their souls? Mumford is silent on the subject. It falls outside the angle of his vision. He is persuaded that the overcentralized society cannot be reformed or modified, only dismantled...
...Swedish Academy may well have set in motion a showdown that will pit the Soviet regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin against a lone and indomitable man who has become a hero of Russia's growing dissident movement and a symbol to those of his countrymen who yearn for greater artistic freedom. Even as Solzhenitsyn, 51, and his wife Natalya celebrated the award with friends at a party outside Moscow in the little wooden dacha of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, hard-lining Soviet literary bureaucrats were preparing an attack on him. Under the heading "An Unseemly Game," the Soviet...
...explosive changes in the nation's cities. In New York as elsewhere, rural blacks have flocked to the city; middle-class whites have increasingly moved to the suburbs. As a result, C.U.N.Y. and other urban universities confront rising pressure from poor youths, often members of minority groups, who yearn for the college degrees that they look upon as a ticket to U.S. affluence and status. "College is all kids talk about in high school these days," says Chris Vega, 18, a freshman at C.U.N.Y. "If you don't go to college, you just...
...members, fear that C.U.N.Y. risks turning itself into a college-level version of the failure-breeding high schools. Other skeptics contend that students who receive automatic college places may become embittered when they encounter persistent academic difficulties. If they then demand automatic degrees, they could devalue the credentials they yearn...
...rigid standards, First Love is a sick film-admirably sick with love. It is also the robust debut of a film maker to be admired and watched. Just about every actor insists that "what I really want to do is direct." Maximilian Schell has not been content merely to yearn; he has made it happen...