Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). A man's obsessive dream and how it ultimately destroys him is the subject of Playwright Robert (A Man for All Seasons) Bolt's Flowering Cherry...
...MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER is a dramatization of the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings on the security clearance of the renowned physicist. The testimony unfolds like an interminable dream; the play, rather than tingling with the anguish of a man torn between his country and his conscience, is merely misted over with sadness...
...Luther King Jr. could have been a day of hope and affirmation. Instead, to millions of black and white Americans last week, it meant a renewal of anxiety. Little, after all, has been done since April 4, 1968, to extirpate racism or to clothe with reality King's dream of social justice. Even so, when brief flurries of violence roiled observances of King's death, they compared in no way to the hideous rioting that swept 168 U.S. communities last year...
Language and Legends. The community college is something else: dine beolta (the people's school) really belongs to the Navahos themselves. The college is primarily the creation of two men. President Robert Roessel Jr., 42, brought to his dream the experience of 20 years of teaching and school administration among the Navahos, plus the insight of his Navaho wife, Ruth, who is liaison officer for the college. Roessel's indispensable colleague was Raymond Nakai, the Navaho tribal chairman, who has advocated a community college on the reservation for more than a decade...
...eminence as the genius of the civil rights movement. Despite the celebrity that surrounded him-and because of it-King's was the symbolic presence and voice of the black, of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, his inchoate rage distilled into visionary phrases: "I have a dream." There were other components in King's leadership: his unusual stature among whites (culminating in the Nobel Prize), the combination of his Southern rural style with Gandhian ideals, and an almost unassailable dignity respected by both blacks and whites. Negroes kiddingly called him "De Lawd," but it was particularly important...