Word: yearnings
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...Will we become zombie consumers of Lethal Weapon 17, or connoisseurs of Greek drama on channel 894? Will our voracious image consumption erode our ability to read and speak, or will TV teach us new languages? Will we be happy in our comfy video cocoons, or yearn to escape from that cell and get our shoes muddy at an outdoor concert...
...then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded. Hear them today, and their every statement is a nuanced embrace of reason, each a seemingly heartfelt echo of Bush at his Inaugural: "I yearn for a greater tolerance and easygoingness about each other's attitudes and way of life." Hear the President say he would support his granddaughter's hypothetical decision to terminate her pregnancy, and his matter-of-fact insistence that the decision to do so would be hers alone ("Who else...
...impulse, but why don't they start by running for the school board or the county commissioners' court? Why do they always want to buy the governorship or a senatorship? Or, in the case of Perot, who's richer than God, the presidency? It's enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when rich guys just bought racehorses and yachts...
Like Isaiah, we yearn for the day when "[all people] will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles and when nation will not make war against nation." Mary T. Teichert '93 President Catholic Student Association Steering Committee
Sony. Toyota. Honda. Mitsubishi. Nikon. Ricoh. Toshiba. There seems no escaping Japan in the U.S. these days. But just try to escape America in Japan, especially if you are young and yearn to be hip in Tokyo. America is an essential element of growing up urban in Japan...