Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come out as expostulations instead of slightly wistful asides. Lysistrata isn't an organization woman: her eyes are set on distant heavens full of available males. In fact, she can hardly wait to be dominated again. Miss Ritter behaves too much like Susan B. Anthony to convey the real dream...
...dream match between national collegiate champion Anil Nayar of Harvard and McGill's Peter Martin will not take place. Nayar and Crimson captain Rick Sterne are both in Bombay, India to attend the wedding of Nayar's sister. In addition Harvard will miss the services of Peter Abrams, its number nine player. Abrams is competing at the National Junior Squash Tournament in Connecticut...
...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a lucid and persuasive essay, the 85-year-old German philosopher urges his countrymen to build a nation based on individual responsibility rather than on an atavistic dream of a perfect system...
Died. William Littlewood, 69, aircraft engineer and longtime (1937-1963) vice president of American Airlines; of a heart attack; in St. Michaels, Md. Mass air transport was still just a dream in the early 1930s, when Littlewood went to Douglas Aircraft with detailed specifications for the plane that American wanted: twin engines, 200 m.p.h. for 1,425 miles, 21 passengers in reclining armchairs. The result was the DC-3, which became the sturdy backbone of worldwide air travel for 20 years...
...wife of Composer Richard Rodgers, a former professional interior decorator, gives a step-by-step account of how she built her dream house. The story has an irresistible fairy-tale aura, and her menus are as excellent as those in her previous book (My Favorite Things), although many a gourmet will be sorely wounded by her continuing and total aversion to garlic...