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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, Joe just thinks it was for two weeks that he stayed awake. His proctor in Weld South told him it was possible to go to sleep dream you're not sleeping, so that when you wake up, it seems like you've been fully conscious the whole time. Re-evaluating his opening statistic after learning this, Joe realized "I was never really sure whether I was sleeping or not." Anyhow, the uncertainty was reason enough to drive him into University Health Services for sleeping pills, which brought on the long-awaited blissful slumber...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

That's only the beginning. The probable starting five of JoJo White, Charlie Scott, Dave Cowens, Havlicek, and Wicks is no dream lineup--it's a playground nightmare...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.S. on Sports | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...screenwriters' own self-image at the moment. For years they had been the leftists who sat by pools in their Hawaiian print shirts, hauling in $1500 a week. Suddenly they were Everyman again, the Everyman they had been writing dialogue for for years. They harbored the screenwriters' dream--to play their own words. When the chance came, they were so noble, so articulate, so right, that almost nobody believed them--anymore than anybody could really believe what they had been writing for the screen all that time...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Lots of singing... Not much dancing | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...University of California Law School at Berkeley still look for top college graduates with 700 scores on the law boards, moonlight legal factories such as Van Norman University and Magna Carta University welcome anybody with two years of college-and at least $4,000 to spend on the dream of courtroom glory. The state's education code asks mainly two things of a law school: it must be a corporation and show assets of $50,000. The California Supreme Court recently added further minimum requirements for books and curriculum. Having put up the ante, 32 schools (enrolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Degrees for Sale | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Days in the Trees seems like a bad dream from which the playwright could not awaken. Nor can the actors who shudder convulsively with the dire reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Nothingness Is All | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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