Word: yearning
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...Coop believes in plenty of wreath and ribbon, and the store has been thoroughly festooned with them. For those who yearn for a big profit check next fall, and for those who want to do most of their shopping in one place, shuttling from department to department, the Coop has what it takes. And it has a fine collection of candles...
...intangible who grieve and yearn...
...Proof to Come." In the critical year of 1948, would that be good enough? On the night he accepted his nomination Tom Dewey showed his own realization that more was needed. Said he: "Our people yearn to move to higher ground, to find a common purpose in the finer things which unite us ... The unity we seek is more than material. Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world, physically, apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces, to bind up its wounds...
Boxes in the Air. But to its eight million people, New York is home-whether they live in Manhattan apartments ("a box in the air"), in the serried flats of Queens, or on the elm-shaded streets of stately old Brooklyn Heights. They yearn for it while they are away. They have an unspoken pride in the city's bigness, are reassured by its noise-though many, when they go to the country, find the chirping of crickets maddening. There are reasons for their fondness for its way of life...
...Berman came to the U.S. For a while he painted murals for fashionable houses, covers for Vogue and Town & Country He settled in Hollywood, "the way New York artists go to Connecticut. It's a quiet life, very few people." But he seemed to yearn for the tragic actors and the monumental stage sets of Renaissance Europe. He began to produce ever larger, ever emptier pictures of a girl with her back turned (she might have been his own Muse). At last, as if his pictures were decaying with his talent, he gave his canvases a moldy, gnawed...