Word: daydreamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
THERE is a reporter's daydream: his revelations rock the nation, and he shifts from merely writing news to making it. Newspapers front-page his exposés, he stars at televised hearings and on talk shows, fellow newsmen want to interview him, and the reigning powers that he assaults seem powerless before him. For roughly 9,999 newsmen out of 10,000, that vision remains forever fantasy, but for Jack Northman Anderson it has all come true. A college dropout with no intellectual pretensions, a relentless square whose biggest indulgences are a Sunday-afternoon nap and a second...
...Memory [Nabokov's autobiography] in quest of duplicate items." Instead, the dutiful reader -always feeling vaguely inferior to the ideal Russian reader-is urged to concentrate on "the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus: in an old daydream...