Word: yearning
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...these days [WORLD, Feb. 4]: People here in Iran do not necessarily fall into the two categories of hard-liner (conservative) and pro-Western (reformist). There are those who smell a rat in respect to both factions. The majority of Iranians are fed up with the demagogues and yearn for true democracy in our country. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Tehran...
Beyond establishing the niche that Kerouac has found in modern literary and cultural canons, one must dare to ask why: What is it about our high-speed, jet-plane and bullet-train culture that makes us yearn for something more? What is it about Kerouac’s romanticized journey that fills this void...
Hailing from Newfoundland and specializing in Celtic-inspired folk-rock, Great Big Sea nears perfection with Sea of No Cares. The band flawlessly intersperses energetic versions of traditional Newfoundland ballads with original songs. The overall effect of the album is to make the listener yearn to travel to the land of origin of these brilliant songs. With the fiddles, “Whistles high and low,” and bodhran in “Scolding Wife,” the listener can easily picture himself deep within a Newfoundland bar, hoisting a large mug of frothy mead while belting...
...education. Why does our public system force the poor of our society to send their children to racially segregated and academically defunct schools? Given the opportunity, parents will make wise choices about where to educate their children. Nearly three-quarters of inner-city blacks support school choice and yearn to send their children to private or religious academies instead of dilapidated government schools. Policies that allow parents to choose a religious curriculum for their child will ensure real freedom of religion where beliefs are not marginalized or degraded, but encouraged. In seeking to both improve education and provide moral foundations...
...that generation—its moral relativism, its cult of cynicism, its delusion that all of humanity’s ills result from either Western capitalism or U.S. foreign policy—that, in their death throes, kick and scream against the better angels of our nature who yearn to believe in an America that is both strong and good...