While most audience members turned to operetta for disposable entertainment, its creators longed for respect from the cultural establishment.
Athens was asked by Philip to sacrifice its freedom and its democracy, while Demosthenes longed for the city's brilliance.
Nine months ago, the N.H.L. handed down a 25-game suspension, its longest for an on-ice incident.
It is still only halfway to its longed-for destination, Lhasa, and hundreds of kilometres short of the border of Tibet proper.
Moderates felt betrayed and angry, radicals were bright enough to propose rational ideas, and the class decided to dump its longed-for graduation festivities: no prom, no steer-and-beer, a radically retooled class day intended to inform the alumni and parents why the war was such a mistake.
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The racegoers, up to 30,000 of them, may not notice, but the catastrophic decision to introduce the new regime five days ago rather than next week or next month means that the sport of racing will arrive at Ascot on Saturday wracked with nerves, when the debut of its longed-for end-of-season spectacular should be a cause for celebration.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences got its longed-for research endowment, and Linköping was given university status in 1975.
Now the government's attention has turned back to its long-hoped-for EU membership.
It is a rough model for what Avery Fisher could be after its long hoped for, perpetually deferred renovation.
He comes from a country desperate to end its long wait for a Grand Slam champion.
