Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventions, ranging from accepted cutting technique to standards of careful plotting, and he does not exempt these feminine types from scrutiny. The first important triumph of the film is the skill with which he preserves and uses these stereotypes, revivifying them by reversing their conventional values: the unattainable blonde dream-girl, Sally, becomes the corrupter and destroyer, while the mundane, available brunette, Kate, is the builder and comforter...
Speaking at the Harvard Square Forum on "Violence in the Streets", Howard explained, "When a society kicks a whole race of people, that race is going to kick back. Black people are willing to risk death to get the American dream off their backs...
...exactly 25 days, SOS netted $1,275,100 - enough to keep the college going for two years. "We had sweaty hands," says SOS Treasurer Robert Izzi, "and we were so emotionally keyed up that when the announcement keeping us open did come through, we started singing The Impossible Dream." That dream, to be sure, still has a deadline: a $3,500,000 transfusion is needed if K.S.C. is to stay open for five more years. But the college's undaunted students have no doubt that they can raise the money. They are already planning another fund-raising project...
...Morris dream was doomed by history. As Poet John Betjeman says of present-day England...
...since the end of World War II, he has been relentlessly reminding his people that guilt belongs not only to Hitler but to the Germans who supported and obeyed him. Six years ago, he brought down Wagnerian thunder on his head by advising Germans to give up their favorite dream, reunification. Now in this slim, blunt: volume-a bestseller in Germany-he has put all the unpleasant reminders together. The result is a remarkable attempt at national selfcriticism. Only Günter Grass-described by Jaspers as "our one political writer who cannot be praised highly enough"-has stabbed harder...