Word: hungering
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...Well, we did it. We went to the moon. And your "middle America" was just the flagwaving contingent for 200 million people who were all, in their ways, flying just as high as NASA's Columbia, because maybe, just maybe, they all of a sudden realized that hunger and poverty and ghettos and education weren't all problems whose solutions were as distant as the moon...
...fair to say that his writing was at first an extension of his directing; it was an attempt to extend his hegomony over his theater, to reduce the number of autonomous elements which could stand against his authority. Had there been nothing more to it than hunger for power, he might have gone on to dispense with the actors altogether and made theater with one flashing machine under his personal control. Maybe the thought has crossed his mind. But turning inward in search of themes, he seems to have discovered in his own ironic detachment the strength or the desperation...
...Humanity is faced with three major problems. No. 1 is how to control the burgeoning population of our species. When we solve that, we may have a chance to lick No. 2-the eradication of hunger. Once that is accomplished, there is a possibility we might move on to No. 3-elimination...
...number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author, a civil engineer-who keep the number open around the clock. At the other end are the lonely people of Davenport who hunger for the sound of a sympathetic human voice...
...described as the first translation into software of the sensitivity training advocated by California's Esalen Institute (TIME, Sept. 29, 1967). Esalen's associate Bernard Gunther was there to give the effort his wholehearted approval. "The increasing promiscuity and need for drugs are manifestations of touch hunger," he said. "We have lost our sensory innocence. You rarely touch somebody in this culture unless you want to make it with them." Nevertheless, Gunther insisted that touch does not necessarily have anything to do with sexuality...