Word: yearning
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Whether recalling the glories of the past or peering with lofty vision into the future, the men and women who have led America to the high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly...
Conversely, top officials should take the initiative to raise questions orally and directly, rather than sending paper inquiries down through the ranks. Oldtimers at NASA yearn for a return to the days when Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, now Reagan's director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, ran the shuttle program. When he sensed a problem, he awaited no "criticality" rating; he barged into the office of even the lowliest technician to ask how to fix it. Perhaps unfairly, one commissioner insists that "Abe was replaced by wimps...
...mere mention of history and cultural conditions is regarded by many critics as arrogant, elitist and racist. "What makes you think," say those critics, "that only advanced and educated people are capable of democracy? The poor and the ignorant also yearn for freedom, and why should we assume that they are not capable of free government...
...feminist fascists, first of all, want gender purity. Women must shake off the ideologies and mores of masculine kultur. Secondly, they yearn for "A Place in the Sun," a separate but equal set of values for women. Women must be respected not just as equal persons, but simply and existentially for being women. Women must be represented and treated positively. Here, pornography is an obvious target. Ideally, men should look past a women's potential for a night of funzies, to the real qualities that make a woman a woman...
...question of home, and of the desire to return, that the difference between men and women immigrants finally becomes clear. Many of the men continue to yearn for the old country, the old ways. They had status in their homelands simply because they were men. They had hours to spend with their cronies, and no one ever expected them to clean the house. Most of the women surveyed do not want to go back, and they work to root themselves in the U.S. The price is high, but the reward is something they would find hard to achieve at home...