Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending a high-level emissary to Bonn to ask West Germany to plead Israel's case with...
...Dream. The dream of a new capital to replace old Rio precedes Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1822. But it is uniquely Kubitschek's accomplishment, for until he set up the government-owned Novacap corporation to do the job. Brasilia was all talk. "We must occupy our country, march to the west, turn our backs to the sea, and stop staring fixedly at the ocean-as if thinking of departing," says Kubitschek...
When Kansas Millionaire Bill Graham tried to spark a brush fire for capitalism in socialist-minded India last summer (TIME, Aug. 12), the government poured on cold water. Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari and others refused to see him. But last week Graham's dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour...
...reason for the turnabout was plain. India is now desperate for foreign capital and sees in Graham a chance to show good will toward investors. On Graham's part, there had been nothing but good will and hard work since last summer. Fervently talking up his dream back in the U.S., Graham collected $250,000 from fascinated' investors ranging all the way from the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. ($25,000) to an oil worker who offered $5,000 in $100 monthly installments and formed Private Enterprises...
Finally, what about the readers? Citing Walt Whitman's remark that "To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too," Knopf suggests that a really great audience would pay its own way. He grumbles that "People who wouldn't dream of borrowing any other purchasable object feel no compunction about borrowing a book." But successful Businessman Knopf really is not much displeased with his customers' buying or reading habits: "By and large," he concludes, "the taste of the reading public is better than that of us who cater...