Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baby boomers lack this palpable hunger for acceptance. "Unlike the Kennedy era," says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, "Clinton's generation has already had its chance to make its tastes the country's tastes." Has it ever. Baby boomers -- especially the older ones like Clinton who were born in the 1940s -- have been pop-cultural imperialists since before Woodstock; the rest of America, like it or not, has had to endure their collective self-absorption as they metamorphosed from hippies to yuppies to competitive parenting. What is possibly left for them to gain from a Clinton presidency, other...
...physical energy, voracious hunger" presented by Clinton during the campaign reminded presidential biographer Doris K. Goodwin of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...past, the idea was that students would give up one dinner at the dining halls and Dining Services would donate the money saved to the Hunger Action Committee," said Molly G. Ware '95, chair of the Hunger Action Committee of Phillips Brooks House. "But many people were concerned that the fast was losing its educational value, since students would sign up and then go eat at Uno's." Ware said she hopes the option of a subsistence meal of rice, beans and water will encourage more people to participate...
...money raised will be divided between OxFamAmerica, an international hunger aid organization,and anti-hunger programs at Boston schools...
...cultural mix taking shape all around us, able to light up Salman Rushdie-land with a visual daring that must have moviemakers salivating. Two weeks ago, The English Patient won England's prestigious Booker Prize, sharing the award for best novel of the year with Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger...