Word: yearning
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With a few exceptions, Europe's isolated minorities yearn not so much for independence as for linguistic, cultural and economic equality. In any given office building in Brussels, a Belgian saying goes, the doorman speaks only Dutch, the secretaries are bilingual and the managing director deals only in French. In Italy's Alto Adige region, severed from Austria by diplomatic fiat after World War I, German-speaking Tyrolean terrorists committed some 200 bombings and other acts of violence in the 1960s before Rome agreed to a measure of autonomy. Still, streets are known as both via and strasse...
...most intriguing findings of all in State of the Nation is that the majority of Americans yearn to escape urban areas not for suburbia, but for the truly open spaces. While only one out of every three Americans now lives in towns, villages or rural areas, more than half in the poll sample said that they would prefer such a setting. That figure is swelled by the ranks of black city dwellers (70%) who want to move out. Conclude the editors: "The figures suggest that if the American people could follow their inclinations, the population of our cities would...
...adopted the Tennessee Williams play for the screen. Perfectly cast, with Paul Newman as Brick, an honorable but emasculated cripple, Elizabeth Taylor as his frustrated wife Maggie (the cat), and Burl Ives as his father Big Daddy, whose death and inheritance all the family save Brick and Maggie yearn for. One of the more palatable of the Williams films, and Brook's best...
Bing made it a point not to appear personally friendly with the artists who worked for him. He did yearn, though, to be on better terms with Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Bing brought Karajan to the Met in 1967 to stage Wagner's Ring cycle, and found him "unquestionably the outstanding artistic phenomenon of my later years at the Metropolitan." Friendship with Karajan Bing could not manage. "You offer him a cigarette, he says he doesn't smoke," says Bing. "You offer him a drink, he doesn't drink. Let's have lunch; he never...
Hanley might well yearn for the simplicity of biblical days, when the Good Samaritan, reaching humanely to help a stricken traveler, had no need to fret about warrants, lawsuits, the high cost of medical care or the expensive frailties of Cadillacs and jet airliners...