Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon ax since 1953. The Navy had devised a none too subtle ploy to force the crusty, cantankerous then captain into retirement by reducing him to working out of a converted ladies' room and twice passing him over for promotion. But many on Capitol Hill shared his dream of an all-nuclear fleet, no matter what the cost. At their insistence, the Navy moved him to better quarters and eventually promoted him to full admiral. Since 1965, when he reached retirement age, his congressional supporters have forced the Navy to reclassify him every two years as a retired officer...
...aversion to new spending programs. Mondale, moreover, enjoys the unqualified support of Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top aide, who originally backed him for the vice presidency. "In the past," says Jordan, "a President's staff has been able to boss the Vice President around. No one would dream of doing that with Mondale. I consider him my boss, like I consider Carter my boss...
Sagan also wonders if the human fear of falling is not a memory inherited from our arboreal ancestors, who lived in trees and suffered when they forgot the effects of gravity. He speculates too on the reason for dreams. Many neuroscientists believe that dreaming is less a working out of subconscious desires than the means by which humans "debug" or rewrite the mental programs they have picked up during the day. But if this is so, Sagan wonders, why do infants, who presumably have little or no experience to sort out, seem to dream just as much as their elders...
...favorite insights of contemporary social analysis is that modern society is increasingly transient. People today seem to be lacking both roots and direction, constantly searching for the good life, the American Dream, or the Holy Grail...
...that the screen romance ends happily; the film is, on the contrary, an attempt to dissect its failure. But within the context of loss, Allen exhibits an enviable ability to do and say the things the rest of us only dream of. On the simplest level, that means cutting through the polite dishonesty that garbs social interchange. When Annie admits she's not busy either Friday or Saturday night, Allen asks her, "How come you're so popular? What have you got--the plague?" And when they go out for the first time, he requests a kiss smack...