Word: yearning
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...moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...
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...woven from the many strands--Japanese, Korean, Indian, Pakistani--of Asians in America. And he argues further that racial groupthink can stir up resentments and erect walls among the races. But Liu recognizes the importance of preserving ethnic ties, and unlike many conservatives, he resists dismissing those who still yearn for racial belonging. "While racial identity is sometimes a shackle," he writes, "it is not only a shackle...
Jackson described the shared characteristics of the dream as equal treatment, opportunity, access to social goods and entitlement to those goods. All of these requirements, Jackson maintains, will build a "big tent" open to all "those who yearn to breath...
...heard King's preaching in the South and I yearn to hear his sermons again. I keep the text of "The Dimensions of a Complete Life," my favorite sermon, on my desk. It ends in hope...