Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages; $8.95), published last week by Simon & Schuster. The gamesman loves glory and winning-not for the sake of wealth or power (though he may acquire both) but for the sheer joy of victory. He detests losing. Maccoby, 43, isolated the type after six years of Rorschach tests, dream analysis and interviews with 250 managers (4% of them women) at twelve elite U.S. companies. As Maccoby's interviews, conducted for the Harvard Project on Technology, Work and Character, took him higher into corporate structures, he found more and more executives who showed gamesman characteristics, though most were a mixture...
...great potential for lasting effects?was crystallized in the sixth episode, when Kizzy explained to her son Chicken George why she could not marry her lover, Sam. "Sam wasn't like us," she says. "Nobody ever told him where he come from. So he didn't have a dream of where he ought to be goin'." Because of Alex Haley's search, countless American blacks now know, or are trying to find out. Michigan Congressman Charles Diggs told Conyers that "now he understands who he is; now he understands what his father used to talk about." Added Conyers...
...social as well as personal function. They externalize a deep, ineradicable fantasy, and behind the vain, comic flap there flies - however briefly - a valuable purpose. Concludes Peter Haining: "The bird-man is, after all, always there to remind us of his intent ... he flies on as ever in our dreams, on our televisions and radios, and even through our day-to-day conversations. We should surely miss him deeply if he were not there." We should, like Dante, have to dream him all over again...
Behind Naropa is the master's dream of a "great Buddhist renaissance" in America. "Americans have the greatest amount of confusion and wealth in the world," says Chogyam, a short, plumpish man who giggles frequently and peers over his glasses with benign amusement. Meditation attracts troubled Americans, he feels, because it damps their ego and ambition. "People are very relieved when they learn that they are nothing, that they don't exist," he says. Chogyam offers no panacea to his followers. His basic message is: "Go and sit and think and find sanity...
...professional scene, the revamped New York Knickerbockers have made a series of trades that include the acquisition of native New Yorkers Jim McMillian and Dean "the Dream" Meminger. Lately, the Knicks have been packing the Garden the way they did in the late '60s and early '70s, as the beautiful people have returned to mingle with scalpers on the sidewalks of 33rd Street...