Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Nixon spoke of himself as the hero of this American dream, even though his intent was plainly modest, seemed cloying to some. And the reference to a train whistle was an oddly old-fashioned note: trains do not symbolize escape and movement to today's young. Yet there could be little doubt that Nixon was sincere here, just as Lyndon Johnson is sincere when he talks about his years of poverty along the Pedernales. Certainly Nixon's audience in Miami knew what he was talking about, and responded...
There will I dream...
...filmed by a little boy with a movie camera who rejects Everyman's plea for companionship by saying, "My life's a silver screen: lots of hand-held stuff, but no adventure flicks." When Everyman misses, it does so by picking overeasy targets to snipe at: American dream complacency, religious hypocrisy, etc. But as in Mayer's Midsummer Night's Dream the reinterpretation of type is often shocking, always cunning. The archetypal morality play proves a perfect vehicle for calculated improvisation...
...dream my genesis...vision of new man strength, I seek the sun." Dylan Thomas...
...Sunday afternoons dogs sleep Sun, I suppose, warms and winds Within a collie's dream...