Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...romantic delusion that in order to be attractive a man must be young and handsome, has made it incapable of understanding Jackie Kennedy's choice. Aristotle Onassis may not be Beau Brummel or Paul Newman, but he can offer a way of life that most of us only dream about and few men can offer any woman, no matter how beguiling or famous she might...
...NEVER abandoned her faith in the communist system. Often, in her speeches and in private, she talks of the need for a "counter-vision with counter-values" to replace the American dream. "When I talk about the need for the people to own the means of production," she explains, "I don't mean that each worker in a factory would own the machine he works at. It's different. It's that the profits of a company, instead of going into the pockets of the owner, come back to benefit the people who work for the company...
Plugging people in is the goal of modern planners and urban thinkers, just as building grand boulevards and sweeping plazas was the dream a century ago. Most urban thinkers envisage a graduated form of government. A large, regional body would do such things as policing the environment, building expressways, and providing police. Smaller organizations would provide services such as recreation and education...
...country. And his hopes, as outlined in the book, are that a few, then hundreds and eventually thousands of Spaniards will follow in his footsteps. Eventually, so his vision goes, the streets of Spain will be jammed each Sunday by the encartelados bearing silent but effective witness to the dream of change. Initially, just as his book predicts, the public reaction in Madrid was sympathetic but skeptical. "It might work elsewhere," a student said, "but it's like a fly running into a stone wall here." Indeed, Arias was quickly indicted for two violations of the penal code...
...cries in the night, cobwebs on the tower stairs-all the exquisitely accumulated gothic horrors-these are the forte of frail, large-eyed women novelists. Joyce Carol Oates, a brilliant writer, offers an updated variation on the genre by taking the American Dream and turning it into a kind of American nightmare...