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A version of this review appears in print on January 15, 2014, on page C2 of the with the headline: Hungers Unsatisfied: Mouths Full, but Only With Words.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2014

Blending spiritual and temporal concerns, the 1976 theme was "Hungers of the Human Family."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There are other hungers. Hungers I don’t even understand, that are foreign to me.”

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Night, in utmost noon forlorn and strong, with heart athirst and fasting, Hungers here, barred up forever, whence as one whom dreams affright, Day recoils before the low-browed lintel threatening doom and casting Night.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Night, in utmost noon forlorn and strong, with heart athirst and fasting, Hungers here, barred up for ever, whence as one whom dreams affright Day recoils before the low-browed lintel threatening doom and casting    Night.

From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles