Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British nation. Every Britisher of intelligence is aware that were it not for the courage and generous strength of the U.S., the whole world would be already under the serfdom of Russia . . . The prayers and trigger-fingers of every man who cherishes a hope for the present or a dream for the future are solidly with...
...Dream. The West, as Toynbee sees it, drew its first strength from Asia's great, early civilization and eventually used its knowledge to rule Asia. In turn, Asia drew its new strength from modern Western civilization and is using that strength now to shake off Western rule. But the significant thing to Toynbee is not that Asia has learned Western technology. It is that, through it, Asia's people have caught, willy nilly, "an idea, an ideal, a hope"-technology's "imponderable spiritual fellow travelers...
Writes Toynbee: "A peasantry that had previously been acquiescing-and this for hundreds and thousands of years on end-in serving as hewers of wood and drawers of water for a privileged minority, has at last been awakening from its slumber . . . For all that time, it had never dreamed of any possibility of a change for the better. The impact of the West has put this dream into [its] mind...
...visiting among Greece's hundreds of islands, he now requires a destroyer, which is more expensive to operate than a nice new yacht would be. But Peurifoy did not see it that way. This week, palace spokesmen announced sadly that King Paul had cancelled the purchase of his dream boat...
...Roman Catholic schoolboy in Burgundy, Roger Buliard dreamed of an adventurous life in the service of Christ. The dream became a dedication. Roger Buliard entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, studied seven years for the priesthood, and at last got a mission station at Coppermine, an Eskimo settlement within the Arctic Circle in the Canadian northwest. For 15 years he roamed the Arctic, forming small congregations, studying Eskimo life and manners, gradually falling in love with the place. Inuk (Eskimo for "I am the man") is the record of his Arctic life, a superb account that blends the impersonal acuteness...