Word: yearning
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...studded with frustrated performers who yearn for a chance to sing with a full symphony orchestra, toot a hot horn with a jazz combo, or play with a professional chamber group. Now they can do all three without ever leaving their homes. The missing thrill is provided by a Manhattan recording company called Music Minus One, which does 90% of its business in releases from which a voice or a single instrument has been purposely omitted...
...Relax. Any good kindergarten teacher knows that her kids in fact yearn to read. But Johnny can't read at 4½ because "research shows" that "reading readiness" comes at 6½. Even when he gets the chance, it may not be worth it. The fatuous "basal reader" with its Oh-Oh-Sue-said trivia destroys all joy in words. Mayer calls this "the most serious single criticism that can be made of the schools...
...world think that Major Gagarin and the good ship Vostok have opened a door that will never entirely close. Space exploration may slow down for a while or stop, but the human species is young, and it is the bumptious master of a fruitful planet. More men will always yearn to travel in Major Gagarin's wake, to see the blue band around the curve of the earth. Eventually, perhaps 10, 100, or 1,000 years from now, a great spaceship will carry men far out in the solar system. They will learn whether the moon and the planets...
Where is Texas going? Some old hands grumble that Ransom's fondness for "dancing on dreams" may plunge the university right back in hot water with the legislature. After all, Texans may yearn for a "university of the first class," but some outspoken professors make them nervous. Ransom is not worried. He says: "We need only one thing-wide confirmation of the growing opinion that we must be first class...
Inevitably, while working there, the ever-observant Nabokov kept a roving eye on Hollywood, a dreamland for which Lolita herself used to yearn. The movie colony may be hard put to know what to make of his conclusion: "It is quietest, sweetest, softest place in the world...