Word: hungering
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...Biafra's other war-on hunger-the Red Cross resumed night relief flights that had been interrupted two weeks ago when federal troops started to fire on its planes. Together with flights chartered by Caritas, the international Catholic relief organization, the Biafran airlift brought to starving Biafrans some 30 tons of food and med icine per night-still only a fraction of the 1,000 tons a day that are needed. At week's end negotiators who have been meeting for four weeks in Addis Ababa made marked progress in clearing the logjam holding up large-scale relief...
...news from Biafra daily il lustrates, hunger is more than a growl from the stomach; it is a shriek from the soul. Robbed of nourishment, the body consumes its own flesh until the victim is literally no longer himself...
...dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
...most drama, events shape the character. In Hunger, nothing happens-and in that vacuum occurs the conflict between the writer's mind and the world's will. At first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable...
...There is in this country," he said, "a creeping paralysis of our national purpose, and we've got to do something about that. While there is hunger and poverty in this country, much of it is exaggerated. We must help the hungry and the poor, but let's stop overdramatizing what's wrong with the United States and start talking about what is right. I am tired of criticisms of the U.S. We are the most generous and compassionate people in the world...