Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a volcano sucking in human sacrifices, Eastlake's war engulfs everyone who comes near it-including two trustful flower children wandering through the jungle with a guitar and a button reading "I have a dream." Even they are not pure victims. Love and life may perhaps be enough for women, Eastlake sadly suggests. But men all share a terrible curiosity: What beast -or possibly what hero-will they turn into at their moment of private reckoning with...
...world can't abide phantasy, fools, excess and dreams. The Bible and church history is loaded with all of these categories. Christ was a dreamer. The martyrs were excessive as they leaped at the lions and the flames. St. Francis and his little band of bearded, be-sandaled, begging Italians were fools par excellence. Phantasy? Look to the Apocalypse and the books of Daniel, and Ezechiel. Contemplation is a dream self-induced by asceticism or Godgiven ecstasy, but not too practical...
...chides the militants for their sober-sidedness. They want participatory democracy and dream up utopian reforms. Good. But the Benedictines had participatory democracy 1200 years ago and kept a spirit of contemplation, joy, work and celebration in the process. He might have criticized them for their anti-intellectualism too. If old forms sell you out, dream up new ones...
There is nothing to do. As one character puts it (in a line that gives the best quick explanation of why the dream of American youth is dropping out that I have ever heard in a theatre): "It's a funny world full of funny freaks. You can't plan on anything. It's all so stupid in the end. I can't do anything anymore. All I want to do is sleep now; and cat now; and drink now; and smoke now; and bet now; and bowl now; and fuck now. I don't want to do anything else...
Andreas' son Democritas, whose short hair and well-pressed neatness would certainly appeal to Agnew, has been deeply affected by his cousin's fame. "Now he has a name." says his father, "a dream to live up to." Democritas is a high school senior and has ambitions to be an accountant. He hopes to win the $1,000 scholarship that Agnew established in his grandfather's memory for the youth of Gargaliani...