Word: cravings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September, the Bethlehem Globe-Times published a Letter to the Editor charging that fraternity men are nuisances to their neighbors. The letterwriter stated that the University should build "a huge pit" on the campus, and continued: "Here these animals can congregate and act like the dunces they apparently crave...
...eeriness, her split-second vagueness, Actress Winwood could impose a sense of drawing-room comedy on a Laundromat, and does it all the better in a library. Though not a thriller, Speaking of Murder, as Broadway's only example of the type, should provide relief to those who crave a thriller until an actual thriller comes along...
Sympathy, in fact, is something the new advance guard demands. Far from wishing to needle the bourgeoisie, as did the School-of-Paris moderns half a century ago, the young pioneers of American painting crave appreciation. When it is not forthcoming, some of them sulk and some shrug. But none of them seems to laugh. "To refashion the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, means an endless vital activity," they argue with Goethe. They solemnly reiterate that since impressionism, cubism and abstractionism have proved meaningful over the years, abstract expressionism will, too. And curiously enough, this wishful argument-by-analogy...
...earned Tenderfoot ratings. A few are Second Class Scouts. The most significant thing about their accomplishment, Scoutmaster Alan Conley believes, is that all of them have genuinely earned their advancement: the program has been modified, but not simplified, for their benefit. "We have learned," says Conley, "that these boys crave responsibility. Before, they were always treated like babies. No one gave them responsibility because it was felt they did not want it. Now they are thankful for what they have, and they are happy...
...Some people's appetites crave an All-College Congress of Joy," Kimball continued. "I am sympathetic, but unmoved. When they have lived with their urge longer, they may be able to predict its arrival earlier, and not tend to conflict with more orderly procedures, like operas. Enthusiasm must be curbed" he said...