Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agenda would be a new ruling on contraception to reflect the consensus of the faithful. Another, suggests Theologian Gregory Baum of Toronto, would be a definition "of the limits of papal authority and the freedom to be given local churches." It is taken for granted by those who dream of Vatican III that priests and laymen would be represented, as well as bishops. Philosopher Novak half-seriously proposes that the proper setting would be the catacombs, rather than the baroquely splendid nave of St. Peter's. Unfortunately, Pope Paul will almost certainly not call another council in his lifetime...
...better not read on, for the dangers we face from natural causes are as nothing to the peril of our own creation. There are 45,000 computers operating in America today, and they are taking over our lives in a way that an equal number of vampires couldn't dream...
...Eastern cultures; they retire amid honors and stock options. Defeated politicians are not liquidated, as in totalitarian countries; they run again. In a dynamic and open society, losers are blessed with enormous opportunities to weather defeat by switching to new directions of adventures. The comeback is an especially American dream. Yet that itself only indicates a desperate need to win. Whole libraries could be filled with American novels whose villain is success, or a misunderstanding of what success means...
...chairs and cheering. Someone was crying. You couldn't even get Cokes at the bar without showing proof, but nobody cared. Drinks weren't important. In a horrible election year, one good thing had happened. Everyone crowded around Lowenstein, shaking his hand, hugging him. The band played "The Impossible Dream...
Every driver's dream is to build and race his own car. New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, 31, has carried that dream several fancies farther: practically everyone else is driving his cars too. In this year's six-race Canadian-American Challenge Series for Sports-Racing cars, 16 drivers in a field of 40-including McLaren and his countryman Denis Hulme, 32-are piloting sleek, slope-nosed McLaren-built machines. Last month, in the fourth race of the series at Monterey, Calif., McLaren cars swept the first six places, with Hulme finishing second and McLaren fifth. This...