Word: yearning
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...last two years, has been a frustrating place for SDS. The organization has never been able to achieve a truly wide impact; no issue has seemed clear-cut enough to attract strong, long-term support. SDS members complain about the apathy of the average Harvard student. They often yearn for something closer to a Berkeley. The Harvard student body doesn't seem to get stirred up, and the Harvard administration is difficult to offend...
Processed Scholars. He insists that the aim of education ought to be "the molding of men rather than the production of knowledge." Students yearn to "become civilized men instead of scholars," but after four years they feel they are not humanely educated. So they go on to graduate school, where they are "processed as professors" whose aim is "to know rather than...
...ruled so romantically over the fabled Camelot. He was more likely a quarrelsome and ruthless local chieftain who badgered monks, stole their cattle, and led a hardy band of early English Christians in clobbering barbarian invaders at the battle of Mount Badon in A.D. 517. Still, avid Arthurians yearn to prove either version-and it now looks as though some hard archaeological evidence is at hand in a hilly pasture at Cadbury Castle, 100 miles southwest of London...
...forgetting most of what he sees or hears "within a matter of hours or days," says Marshall, a witness typically appears at a trial months or years later, retaining only his most emotional memories. Various studies suggest that crime details are best recollected by "punitive" people, notably policemen who yearn for convictions. Conversely, a forgetful witness is often highly coachable and potentially perjurious because he fears to let the side down. "These are adversary proceedings," says Marshall, "and if his side wins, the witness shares in a form of social reward that reinforces his 'self-constancy...
...Snorkels. Another architect who is fed up with faceless, anonymous architecture that conceals function is John Johansen, 49, whose Goddard Library at Clark University in Massachusetts looks more like a photocopying machine than a glassy showcase for books. Johansen believes that architects, like all thinking people today, yearn to pierce through established façades: "Nothing goes unquestioned today; nothing is taken at its face value...