Word: dream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their hair done. It is a happy time; Pomme feels a part of the family of women, singing songs for them about tulips and "ovules." She goes to Iran with her boyfriend, gets married, gets pregnant and sings "oh, it's good to be a big fat dream...
Suzanne, tired of suffering and loneliness, cops out and fulfills the stereotypical mother's dream for her daughter in her marriage to an established doctor. Varda justifies the wedding by saying it was without bourgeois frills; for entertainment they played records and scrabble. Nevertheless, this marriage is disturbing, as are all of Varda's male-female relationships. There is no redifinition of a women's role in relation to a man here. If a man is dominant and aggressive the woman simply leaves him. If he is weak and easily patronized the women can stay. There are no struggles...
Some Israelis, in this period of national exhilaration, were already speculating about what only a few weeks ago would have been totally impossible dreams: a peace treaty involving Egypt, Jordan and Israel that would shut out the P.L.O.; perhaps even a new economic and political alliance in the Middle East that would unite Egypt's markets and manpower, Israel's expertise and technology and Saudi Arabia's oil money. Curiously, the Syrians also had the same dream-but in the form of a nightmare. Last week Damascus officials were worried that a peace agreement might lead...
...strode into that world from the fruited plains of Velva, N. Dak., where his father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where...
...they listen to each other, and especially his chapbook belief in America's innate strengths. "No other great power has the confidence and stability to expose and face its own blunders," he wrote last year in a new introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream. "We are a turbulent society but a stable republic. The mind goes blank at the thought of a world without one such power...