Word: yearning
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...people who are not meant to win," the lost, the odd, the strange, the difficult people-fragile spirits, who lack talons for the jungle. If Williams wins an audience's sympathy for these people, it may be because he speaks to a common condition: loneliness. All his characters yearn to break out of the cell of the lonely self, to touch and reach another person. "Hell is yourself," says Williams. "When you ignore other people completely, that is hell." The revelation towards which all of Williams' plays aspire is the moment of self-transcendence-"when a person puts...
...study of the Republican Party published last week, the party is in complete organizational disorder, from the understaffed precinct offices to the ideological chaos at the top. In effect, Romney's most immediate appeal is not to the people, but to the Republican leaders; it is they who must yearn most for the radical simplification of politics a Lochinvar-figure promises...
...Bahamas (no personal property tax; no real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent...
...years before it was choked by the militarists in the '30s. The between-the-lines message was to Japanese radicals who are impatient with the legal niceties of democracy, which they regard merely as imposed by the U.S. occupation. One of his sharpest arguments: to students who yearn for both neutrality and disarmament, Reischauer points out that the two do not go together: "To be neutral, you must be prepared to be highly militarized, like Sweden or Switzerland...
...Johannesburg's Witwatersrand University, a young South African lecturer in chemistry publicly turned his back on his country. Said David Rosseinsky, 28: "Call it running away if you like, but living in this country with all its political and racial frustrations so affects me that I yearn for release...