Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainstream of American life to all citizens. Such an attack would in the long run prove a sound investment, in lives as well as dollars, for a society with both the conscience and creative resources to hold out for all its people the actuality of the American dream...
...student body at Michigan State University, was bothered by what he felt to be inaccurate claims of campus support being trumpeted by some of the candidates. But he saw no point in taking his protest to the picket lines. He did not stage a sit-in, or even dream of holding a faculty member hostage. Instead, as this year's election approached, he came to TIME with an idea. Why not find out what the students really think...
...cheered Humphrey's crack: "We were just testing the exits on both ends of the gym, and they work." But Humphrey turned serious when one Negro student, Robert Pickett, 20, rose to question him. Pickett said that he could not buy Humphrey's talk about the "American dream" because "for the black man it is the American nightmare." Humphrey replied that he understood Pickett's being discouraged, that not enough had been done to achieve racial equality. and the reason he was running for President was to restore the faith of all the Robert Picketts...
...past dozen years, Mailer has developed cop-out infatuation with amateur journalism. During that time he wrote only two interesting but indifferent novels, An American Dream and Why Are We in Viet Nam? Ernest Hemingway, Mailer's onetime hero, also engaged in journalism but noted that "it blunts the instrument you write with." It may be time for Mailer to heed that warning...
...camp-in site-as soon as one can be agreed upon. Congressional pressure against allowing the marchers to use federal land is mounting. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has been cool to the use of the Capitol Mall, where crowds gathered to hear King deliver his ringing "I have a dream" speech in 1963. A likely compromise may be West Potomac Park near the Lincoln Memorial, a magnet for tourists...