Word: dreamful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those were our chil dren who were doing the beating." They also meant that their view of themselves as a last moral bastion has become ever more frustrating. Lower-middle-class Americans read of millionaires who pay no taxes. The clergymen whom they value lead open-housing demonstrations. They dream of sending their children to college, but the universities have become battlegrounds for black militants and white rad icals. Their bumper stickers suggest an apprehensive kind of jingoism (REMEMBER THE PUEBLO), and the decal Amer ican flags on their car windows bespeak a defensive patri otism (THESE COLORS...
...hope succeeding generations will be able to be idle. I hope that nine-tenths of their time will be leisure time; that they may enjoy their days, and the earth, and the beauty of this beautiful world; that they may rest by the sea and dream; that they may dance and sing, eat and drink...
...Cariou is first-rate as the sisters' brother Andrey, who loses control of the household to his adulterous wife. He gives up his dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post so petty that he has to bolster his pride by berating a subordinate for not addressing him a "Your Honor," and--like Abe Fortas--seek solace in going off by himself to play the violin. Cariou makes him genuine, well-meaning, and pathetic; and I'd swear he really puts...
...need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American dream...
Ever since the 1830s, when sectionalism and new waves of immigration began to splinter American Lutheranism, denominational unity has seemed an all but unattainable dream. Ethnic, political and doctrinal differences have frustrated efforts toward ecumenism; by the turn of the century there were 21 separate Lutheran church groups in the U.S. But the goal of unity remained. Last month it became more attainable than ever when the dogmatically conservative Lutheran Church/Missouri Synod (2.8 million U.S. members) narrowly voted to accept "altar and pulpit fellowship" with the slightly more liberal American Lutheran Church (2.6 million members...