Word: dreamed
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James Edward Johnson, 23, a Marine veteran of Viet Nam, went home to West Virginia 17 months ago with a Purple Heart and a dream: he wanted to become a state trooper. But Johnson had two problems. One was his right ankle, shattered by a Viet Cong machine-gun slug in April 1966, when he was a sergeant with the 4th Marine Division. With regular exercise, he was able to get into good enough shape to pass the physical. His other problem was less easily solved. Johnson is a Negro, and there were no Negroes- Vietvets or otherwise-among West...
...cloudy oratory, but occasionally it seemed that they had a common guru. "The real crisis of America today," Nixon declared at one point, "is a crisis of the spirit. What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream." Richard Nixon's personal dream is driving him from a $200,000-a-year New York law practice into what he referred to last week as "the snows of New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the roses of Portland, and what have you." How long the dream will give him any lift...
...earlier record the "gifted Kings and Queens" would have been addressed directly as Madison Avenue executives or corporation heads and Dylan would have been content to castigate them, instead of trying to reform them. Dylan frets over having been responsible (in the dream) for Augustine's death but the note of redemption that has been struck transforms the event into splendid, healing suffering quite unlike the gratification-in-pain so evident in Blonde on Blonde...
...place until Lincoln's birthday, but last week a large cast of dignitaries turned out for the dedication ceremonies. Said North Dakota's Senator Milton Young, who worked for 19 years to get the necessary restoration appropriation from Congress: "For those who revere Lincoln, it is a dream come true...
...High for long hair, is now absorbed in Pacific's touring drama group, which has had its share of troubles. At one Palo Alto performance, a high school principal rushed onstage to object when an actress shed her dress, as required in Edward Albee's The American Dream...