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...seek to discuss Martin Luther King Jr. not as a dreamer, or even a visionary, not as an advocate of colorblindness, but as an activist who pursued a methodology in which his vision of justice for blacks was animated by a vision of justice for all,” she said...
...League of Nations would endanger American independence were "a masterpiece of political incompetence." Among the more hard-nosed realist practitioners of American statecraft--the sort of folk who have found a natural home in the Bush Administration--it has long been fashionable to deride Wilson as a fuzzy dreamer. In a January 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, who would become Bush's National Security Adviser, sniffed, with obvious disapproval, that there were "strong echoes" of "Wilsonian thought" in the Clinton Administration...
...public office is hard. She recognizes that a lot of responsibility comes with the title of public servant. “But,” she says, “I have faith in the fact that I could be a public servant. I’m a dreamer, yeah. But I try to keep my feet on the ground.” Coughlin, too, has faith in himself. This faith is especially apparent when he explains just how sure he is that he’ll one day be president. Without pausing for more than a few seconds...
What makes Universe funny and not just wacky is that it uses the qualities that endeared viewers to Richter's Late Night persona--the affable, moon-faced cynic--making the character the kind of sweet but snarky dreamer you would want in the next cubicle. The supporting cast is top-notch, and after so many glamorous workplace sitcoms, it's nice to see one capture the tedium and absurdity of office life. And Universe mostly skips the physical jokes that Hollywood piles on comics who are, shall we say, not the leading-man stereotype (remember that flesh-colored underwear...
Another anxious dreamer, Marisa W. Green ’04, envisioned academic trauma without flames. Although her life was not at stake, her grade was. “I dreamed that I was taking my Music 97 midterm this Wednesday and my exam packet was filled with nothing but blank pages,” she remembers, “so I had no idea what the questions were. Needless to say, I was unable to write anything for said exam...