Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk of sounding like an aging flower child come down with a terminal case of the jeremiads, I wish to remind TIME that the very power of the American promise, of the dream, makes all the more unbearable the malevolent legacy from our first two centuries...
...Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were (and are) the culmination of an ideological dream and the expression of a people hungry for freedom...
...party gave its most resoundingly heartfelt ovation to the hulking figure of a black woman, Barbara Jordan. The Texas Congresswoman's resonant plea that the barriers that divide Americans be finally bridged ("Notwithstanding the past, my presence here is one additional bit of evidence that the American dream need not forever be deferred") will take its place among Democratic Convention oratorical classics: the eloquent addresses of Adlai Stevenson in 1952, Alben Barkley in 1948, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, William Jennings Bryan...
...strategy and work behind the scenes to make Government more responsive. "To me, it's a wonderful game to get that big bureaucracy moving." His ultimate goal, he says, is to become Speaker of the House. Few people in or out of Congress would call that an impossible dream...
Last Midnight. No negotiator, of course, would dream of admitting that publicly. The union will, as always, choose a target company with which to conclude a pattern-setting agreement (the betting in Detroit is that it will be Ford) and doubtless continue talks down to the last midnight. Meanwhile, both sides are indulging in the usual rhetoric. GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy has warned that labor contracts that raise costs without improving productivity are "fateful mortgages upon our economic future," and Woodcock has spoken portentously of "the final countdown" to bargaining. Yet even the sloganeering has lacked fire. For example...