Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans gathered this week in Kansas City, success seems as elusive as the smoke that wreathes convention halls?a dream without much political substance. There is the customary hope and hoopla, the bunting and bravado, but underneath run currents of deep anxiety. Whoever gains the Republican nomination this year inherits a split and dispirited party and faces the heavily favored, consensus-minded Democrat Jimmy Carter. If the G.O.P. candidate loses in November, the already wobbly party will become even shakier. Not just its opponents but Republicans themselves are wondering whether the G.O.P. can survive much longer...
...books of poetry dream...
According to Boston Psychiatrist Chester Pearlman, evidence from both Europe and America is making 1976 "The Year of REM Sleep." Scientists have long known that REM (for the rapid eye movement during periods of dream sleep, which occur three to five times a night in 20-min. segments) serves crucial needs. One of those needs, Pearlman told the Paris conference, has now been clearly identified: REM dreaming is essential to consolidate memories -no dreaming, no long-term memory...
...experiment with nonpatients, the need for REM sleep rose sharply after exposure to distressing movies. The researchers' conclusion: the memory function and coping function of REM sleep are linked. In both cases, the mind must deal with something it has not been prepared to face, and dream sleep makes it possible to consolidate the new material and make it part of oneself. "We know people generally repress the implications of situations for which they are not prepared," says Pearlman. "The situations usually appear in dreams the next time they sleep and there can be a resolution of the problem...
...foreign policy, however well intentioned, is an imperial thrust at Europe, Asia and Africa. "Roman citizenship," De Riencourt explains, "was eventually granted to all men dwelling within the borders of the empire. Today, as the unacknowledged American empire strives to find its shape and its limits, the same ecumenical dream is beginning to haunt the lands of Western civilization...