Word: daydream
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Adults who neither drink nor smoke, daydream, hallucinate mildly just before sleep, and meditate or withdraw from the waking state without realizing that they are in effect, "high." Young children whirl around madly to produce dizziness or "vertiginous stupor;" they also hyperventilate, inhale the fumes of volatile solvents, experience the effects of ether during operations. As they grow older they learn that such practices are not acceptable to adults, sublimate the desire to experience altered consciousness, and eventually regain social approval of a high by drinking and-or taking drugs...
...more cause to worry than CBS. Besides knocking some CBS entries, Sheehan has praised some of the rival programs. He raved about ABC's Julie Andrews Hour and saluted NBC Reports. To even things up, he said that ABC'S new series, The Rookies, was a "dumb daydream" and called NBC's first Search episode, starring Hugh O'Brian, a "kind of plastic epitome of wasteland television: you want to ask for your hour back when it's over." With all the knocks, CBS of course has had its share of favorable reviews. Sheehan liked...
...effect of late-night talk shows on the TV generation currently at college would make a nice termpaper topic for David Riesman's course. But it might be fair to suggest meanwhile that among those who occasionally daydream of great achievement in whatever field (an affliction especially prevalent among the readers and writers of this newspaper), a common denominator of such daydreams is that they often take the form of telling it to Dick Cavett...
...some, no doubt, while watching the show, the daydream (nightdream?) actually is that of being Dick Cavett, L.E. Sissman suggested in a recent New Yorker...
...promised a balance between domestic life and art. But at the age of 2½ Noah stopped talking. He also stopped feeding himself and using the toilet. He seemed to lose interest in the world. It was as if Noah were attending a private showing of a very exclusive daydream...