Word: yearning
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According to the cabbies of American fiction, Philip Roth has a great glove but can't hit the long ball. The fans will always yearn for the big shot that resounds with bulging affirmations and conventional wisdom. Roth even parodied this expectation in The Great American Novel (1973), a 400-page indulgence of his gifts for lampoon and mimicry...
Keep hiking down Mass Ave and you'll reach MIT, which resembles a prestigious center of technological education and research. Actually, unless you're despondent because you chose Harvard and now yearn in vain for the chance to make rocket fuel, this area is boring...
Still, Congress seems to favor doing something for Chrysler, although $1 billion in tax refunds is distasteful to legislators who yearn to narrow the federal deficit. They may move instead for a loan guarantee. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long has pledged some aid for Chrysler. Says he: "It is better than letting the company fold. That would cost a lot of revenue and jobs." House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman is unenthusiastic but promises to expedite whatever bailout measures the Carter Administration proposes...
...scenario is chilling. China's ethnic minorities, which occupy some 60% of the nation's territory, want to break away from Peking. The inhabitants of Inner Mongolia yearn to unite with the Mongolian People's Republic and the Turkic peoples of Sinkiang with their cousins in Soviet Central Asia. "An exchange of blows," as the author puts it, "may start at any moment." When that happens, hundreds of thousands of "volunteers" on the Soviet side of the Chinese frontier will "come to the aid of [their] brothers in blood and in faith," and the Soviet authorities will...
Intellectuals must encourage the aspirations of ordinary people, Harris said, adding that the public must see that "it's appropriate to yearn for something bigger...