Word: daydreamer
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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...
Games are often a society's ritual fantasies. Parker Brothers' Monopoly, for example, was introduced in 1935 as a Depression daydream of striking it rich with hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. The coming election year has prompted several pick-the-President exercises (TIME, Nov. 8). It is difficult to predict what sociologists, or the Italian-American Civil Rights League, may make of a game called The Godfather -"for All the Families...
Terrill found China in the grip of a "mental unity" created by "the myth of Mao thought." Yet in daily life he noted an "appealing imprecision. People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests...
...sounds like an adman's daydream: instead of agonizing about picking a flashy name for a new product, choose the name first, design an ad campaign around it-and then create the product. Jack Cantwell thought it could be done, and when he formed an ad agency in March 1970, he set his staff to thinking up names for a men's cologne. Shortly after, Creative Director Jerry Weinman tossed at Cantwell a crumpled wad of paper that had "trouble" written all over it. To Cantwell, it sounded like a sexy name suggesting that the man who wore...