Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Kearns...
...during his interlude in Plains, while waiting for his opponent to be chosen, he resumed his regular pace. "I keep three or four books going at a time," he says. He went through a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, a President he admires. He read Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns and eagerly welcomed the author a few weeks later when she came to interview him. Recently Carter polished off General Maxwell Taylor's new book on national defense, Precarious Security. He is savoring Justice and Mercy, a collection of Niebuhr's sermons, addresses and prayers...
...city dweller's old dream: a cottage far from the lethal crowd, perhaps in a little town where the air is sweet, the living easy and, most important, the streets are clean of muggers, rapists and Saturday night specialists...
...Writer Alan Parker manages to sustain this reckless undertaking because he makes it work as many of the best movies do: on a level of common fantasy. For every child smitten by the movies-for those who grew up and those still in the process-Bugsy Malone is a dream fulfilled. The kids are not just the center of the action. They are the action, all of it, romping through a safely enclosed world, meticulously imagined, flawlessly designed...
...Passages, Sheeny (1) 2-The Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein (2) 3-A Man Called Intrepid, Stevenson (4) 4-World of Our Fathers, Howe (3) 5-Scoundrel Time, Hellman (5) 6-AYear of Beauty and Health, Beverly & Vidal Sassoon (8) 7-Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Kearns (6) 8-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (10) 9-The Russians, Smith 10-The Rockefellers, Collier & Horowitz...