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...Reviews is put into use. By measuring brainwaves through the use of electrodes, a device no larger than a pack of cigarettes can gauge a person's level of concentration. If his mind begins to wander, a tone sounds, jolting him from his reverie. If he continues to daydream, another alarm goes off, notifying his boss, his teacher or some Big Brother who can promptly set the dreamer straight...
Decay. All in character, of course. Archer is as much loser as winner. In his wash-and-wear slacks and sports jacket he shoulders resentfully among the heedless rich and the heedless young who are the villains of Macdonald's recurrent daydream, and ours. Roughly at first, then with a rough man's compassion, he rubs their noses in mortality, the loser's truth. See the proud millionaire grovel, as Archer spades up the moldering past! See the sneering teenager whine, as Archer lays bare the certain decay that lies ahead...
...shouting "you can't go that way" and she thinks they are warning her, though of what she doesn't know. When she turns however, she sees that a graybearded man in a wrecked station wagon has driven headlong into oncoming traffic, his attention shattered by his reverie, his daydream invoked by ogling...
...three years after he graduated (magna) from Amherst, Robert Kiely was discharged from the Navy where he had been a communications officer and came to Harvard as a graduate student. His doctoral thesis, submitted in 1962, was titled "From Daydream to Modern Epic: A Study of the Adventure Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson." With his PhD, he joined the junior faculty of the English Department, and published his first book, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, three years later. "The question," wrote Kiely in his introduction, "is whether ... Stevenson has value for the mature reader. My object...
...interviewer that he finds his work satisfying but also that he would like to change his job for something better, [HEW] concludes that he is 'alienated' from his work. One gets the firm impression that the authors of this study believe that to have unfulfilled aspirations, to daydream, to engage in wishful thinking, or to express regret for lost opportunities (real or imaginary) is less than human. It also apparently never occurs to them that it is Utopian to expect ordinary working people to be as content as the most successful surgeon or lawyer. Why should they...