Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equipment. The helmets were once used by the Harvard varsity, and a few still carry a visible "H." Others bear the "K" of Kirkland and the "E" of Eliot, letters made of heavy tape. To have real helmets of their own, with the "K" painted on, is the special dream of Kirkland. Undefeated last year, Kirkland was touted by many to be a better team than Ivy-doormat Cornell...
...early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make the most money. In failing to understand Fitzgerald's disillusionment, Dardis' study falls short...
...Dream Team...
...only did Boston have skilled players, but the roster seemed a dream conceived on Madison Avenue. Boston had as its established star Eusebio, second only to Pele at the peak of his career. There was also Ade Coker, a young, temperamental character with flashy moves, and Shep Messing '72, a top American player who led the NASL in goals-against average last year. Messing also brought the Minutemen his playboy reputation--"the Joe Namath of soccer," they billed...
...Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez' narrative is as ordinary yet startling as the seasons. The shaping powers of Autumn introduce themselves in the first sentence of the book as effortlessly as in nature: Time--arrested, slowed, kneaded by memory and chance, centuries disturbed like dust, recalled like a dream; Power--huge, inevitable, mysterious even to its wielder; Death--arriving at an unex-pected moment, as a carrion bird or in a penitent's garb; and, finally, the rituals of everyday life, expressed in the prepositional phrases, uncapitalized, unpersonified, that begin the book with "over the weekend" and end it with...