Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work has been compared to that of Nabokov and Isak Dinesen. Her essential theme in The Puzzleheaded Girl is rootlessness. Her characters are continually trying to flee themselves. Europeans come to America only to find that they and their new country are incompatible; Americans go to Europe and dream of coming home. Miss Stead also fences with the discontents and ambiguities of big-city life. In one story, an alcoholic who has buckled under urban pressure "longs for the simple rest of a child or a woman or a dog." Yet he knows that "a man wants more, much more...
Last week scientists moved a step closer to making the dream possible. In Palo Alto, two biochemists at the Stanford University School of Medicine reported that they had successfully synthesized a virus that could both infect bacteria and reproduce itself...
...colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs in perpetual agony. To alleviate the pain, he has become an aspirin addict, chewing tablets in twos and threes. At the farmhouse, the pair's dream of riches turns into a nightmare of disappointment: there is no safe, no money. In an orgy of rage, they kill the four Clutters, an unremarkable family of 4-H prosperity and rectitude...
...cliche of show business as a dream world may have been wide-eyed and saccharine. But Novelist Susann's view of Hollywood as nightmare Valley merely adds up to the old naivete in reverse. The show's most appropriate line is uttered by Sharon Tate as she does some bust exercises in front of a mirror. "The hell with it," she says, summing up what seems to be the film's atlitude toward its stars, "let 'em droop...
...bill has little chance of passage. Congress voted last summer to keep undergraduate deferments in the face of both the President's Draft Commission's recommendation to abolish them as well as the statement of U.S. Commissioner of Education, Harold Howe, that he considered them "unjustified." The current American dream is to send one's sons to college, and -- barring a major escalation of the Vietnam war -- there is no reason to believe that Congress will be any more willing to smash the voters' dream next year...