Word: hungering
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...countries for immediate relief, with special emphasis on medical aid; an equal portion will be put toward farm and water supply and general agricultural improvement; 20% will be earmarked for "long-term economic development programs"; and the final 10% --at Stevie Wonder's suggestion--will be contributed to relieve hunger and homelessness in the U.S. Says Quincy Jones: "A song is a small price for somebody's life...
...affirmative outlook with old-fashioned piety to assure his audiences that self-esteem and success are desirable and achievable. During an hour that sometimes resembles a celebrity talk show, Schuller speaks earnestly of the abiding desire for self-worth, of "every person's deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage this emotional hunger with a smorgasbord of rhyming slogans: "There's no gain without pain"; "It takes guts to leave the ruts." For Schuller, an acknowledgment of self-worth, more than a confession of sinfulness, is the path to God. Says he: "We can replace...
...also covet the iron kettles, muskets and other trade goods the Europeans can provide in exchange for escort services. For the man of God, the journey is a trial of faith and a temptation in the wilderness. Each bend in the river holds new dangers to body and spirit: hunger, pestilence, raiding Iroquois and challenges hurled at Christianity by an Indian shaman...
...years ago, campus activists opposed to Harvard's policies organized rallies that drew hundreds. They founded a novel and successful alternative senior gift fund called that Endowment for Divestiture--money from which will not go to Harvard until it divests. And about seven students staged a brief hunger strike to protest Harvard's South Africa-related investments All those moves attracted substantial attention from news organizations across the United States and in South Africa...
...corpse. He learned to run variations on the idea of decorum; to achieve effects of the utmost stateliness and play them off against the "merely" documentary. His enemies thought this showed a taste for the banal. Today it suggests how little, in art, can be more radical than a hunger for the real...