Word: yearning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporters always yearn to penetrate secret meetings when the subject is of compelling public interest. The subject was certainly that in this instance, and it was sure to make the reporters' ears grow long. The police session was called to discuss the electronic bugging of squad cars by police higher-ups to detect possible police misbehavior...
...world, and many are being grabbed up like supermarket chicken specials. From the Atlantic Coast to the Canaries and the South Seas, many hundreds of islands can still be had. One reason is that aging owners, weary of battling for a living by scrambling for cod and crab, yearn for electric power, television, supermarkets, big cars and safe jobs. The island seeker, by contrast, hunts for a happy isle as pristine as those of Ulysses' dream, free of air pollution, real estate taxes, traffic jams, talk shows-and, he often finds out, devoid of plumbing or sewage system...
Nonetheless, I returned to Harvard that fall and quickly befriended the resident cynics of Adams House. Our sordid late night discussions about freshman year adjustments curdled my stomach and made me yearn for the complacency of the West coast. We endlessly talked about Harvard's malignant llness and worried that we were especially susceptible to infection of the Harvard germ since we were already suffering from a mild case of Sophomore Slump. The seed of the well-known germ--ambition--could easily generate into a sick and competitive need to achieve, produce, and be known. We were depressed, felt oppressed...
...hope of finding a way to realize the style of life they seek. Yet a distance between the student and his search for class develops. Some become nervous, some become alienated; probably out of a sense of guilt or inadequacy, they recoil from the traditional situations for which they yearn--they wear a workshirt with their tuxedo. Even clubbies show qualms about their exclusivity, which has already been eroded...
...Chekhovian figure, but in truth he is a little vague to the reader, and perhaps to her. She doesn't even know whether he is Freudian, Jungian or Adlerian. He is the name of what she clings to. Sarah understands her problem with merciless clarity: she yearns. "Yearn," she writes. "That is a word of such strength it makes me afraid." The specialty of the mediocre neurotic writer is to frighten a reader with his act. Sarah Ferguson does something far more subtle, far more relentless. She makes a reader enter not so much into her fears...