Word: dreamful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something like this: "This election is about the future. I ask the country to judge me on my personal record-on the fact that my ideas have always centered on goals attainable despite the obstacles of the moment. My yesterdays have been dedicated to today. Today, I still dream of our tomorrows and here, specifically, are the things I will strive to achieve...
Smooth as a space satellite, precise as a computer, the 1968 Nixon-mobile whirrs around the country like a politician's dream machine. It seems, in fact, almost too automated. The candidate is seldom more than ten minutes late for an appearance. The bands strike up on cue; balloons tumble down at just the right moment. Meticulous planning schedules put the nominee at just the place where the turnout will be largest and the crowd will be the most responsive. More than 11,000 turned out last week in Anaheim, Calif., 5,000 in Fresno, 10,000 in Salt...
After SRRP workers had spent two days in a refrigerator truck packing the beef into one-pound sacks, they drove off to give it to poor families. But their major purpose was to be arrested: Jelinek had a dream of making white Northern families ask themselves, "Why do they have to give out more food to people who already are getting help?" If the SRRP workers could only be arrested--for handling food without a license, for trespassing, for just about anything--Jelinek thought that the pitiful absurdity of the arrests would change Northern minds...
This week, at the age of 82, Mies saw his dream come true, although from a distance. In West Berlin, the $6,250,000 new National Gallery, which he designed (and for which he laid the cornerstone in 1965), officially opened to the public. Ailing and confined to a wheelchair, Mies had to remain in Chicago, where he now travels from his cooperative apartment to his office only once or twice a month to examine the new models for the many Mies-designed buildings now under way.*Still, those who saw the museum in Berlin agreed that it may well...
...offer Roberto Rossellini's impressions of Sicily, an original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman Capote report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format...