Word: cravings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crave for freedom, we denounce (in a whisper) anyone who ventures to doubt the desirability and necessity for total freedom in our country (meaning, in all probability, freedom not for everyone but certainly for the favored few). But we wait for this freedom to fall to our lot like some sudden, unexpected miracle that will occur without any effort on our part. We ourselves are doing nothing to gain this freedom. Never mind the old traditions of supporting people in political trouble, feeding the fugitive, sheltering the passportless or the homeless (we might lose our state-controlled jobs). Day after...
...more than half a mile from the Square. Why anyone needs a guide to an activity as simple as drinking is unclear, but the success of the HSA bartending course and the healthy sale of wine books, drinking books, and tourist guide books prove that the people want--indeed, crave--instruction in how to make their own drinks, or failing that, where to find someone who can mix a passable concoction and guarantee the peace in which to drink...
THIS BIOGRAPHY is overwhelming in both the good and the bad sense. Over a decade of brilliant (obsessive?) research has produced the facts that Faulkner fetishists crave--and who has read Faulkner and is not in a small way a fetishist for facts about this mysterious man? Although I do not consider my own hero-worship of dead authors excessive, I did find it interesting that Faulkner patronized Aunt Rose Arnold's New Orleans whore-house at Chatres and Jackson Square. Similarly, Blotner's account of Faulkner's Hollywood years is as interesting as Time's "people" section...
Anne Tucker's excellent introduction to The Women's Eye grapples with the popular question of a woman's place in society. She discusses the idea that women crave marriage and a family and don't need a professional life. When an ambitious woman rejects domesticity so she'll have time to explore her creativity and pursue her art, one doesn't have to wait long before people begin whispering that she's ugly, bitchy or sexually frustrated. As Tucker points out, traditionally, men are encouraged to be daring and ambitious while women don't compete or take risks...
Some 200 years later, royalty's ragged remnant as well as the restless rich and those who aspire to such status still crave an invitation to Versailles. They are even willing to pay $235 a head for a floor show and supper in the now-termite-infested palace. Of course, the servants must be bewigged, the brocade and baubles as abundant as in the days of Louis and Marie. And so it was last week, thanks to a whim of American Fashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert...