Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goodwin, a famed editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune, and his middle name, like his father's, was a shortened tribute to Great-Uncle Jesse Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck gold, silver and lead, made $30 million, then gave most of it away to the church and various charities, was known for the rest...
Their fathers may be pants cutters, college professors or margarine magnates, but they can run for Vice President, discover vaccines, smash the atom, teach Latin, or, in the Mitty manner, dream violently of heroic adventure...
French youth dares not dream. It must face a reality partly restricted by tradition, partly by history, partly by the failure of its nation's leaders to govern wisely and fairly...
...population lives in rural areas, and some 2,000,000 young men and women work in agriculture. The agricultural pie has been sliced up time and again, until a good-sized farm in France hardly exceeds 50 acres. Such small-farming (although a land reformer's dream) does not make much economic sense and exists largely because of government subsidy-e.g., Napoleon subsidized sugar-beet growers during the British blockade, and they are still subsidized. The eldest son of a farmer can stay around and hope to earn a living from the small acreage, but usually the other...
...moments is closely related to Wordsworth's "intimations of immortality," and like Wordsworth, Wolfe found that as he grew older those moments came upon him less and less. Several times he closely echoes Wordsworth's "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/Where is it now, the glory and the dream...