Word: dreaming
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They might be called the keepers of the flame. A dozen in all, they are the dispossessed descendants of Europe's royal families-and they all have legitimate claims to thrones from Russia to Portugal. Theirs is not always an impossible dream-as witness the restoration of Juan Carlos to the Spanish throne last year...
Since last spring when the department voted to hold up her case, Kearns has one-by-one torn down the barricades blocking her promotion. She canceled plans to co-author her book with Richard N. Goodwin, finally finishing her long-awaited book, "Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream...
...Kearns is denied tenure when the debate comes to an end--probably later this spring--it will have been at the initiative of the administration, a step that would again put Harvard at the center of academic controversy and may shake Kearns out of her version of the American Dream...
...slang, etc.) you find an apt and sinister diagram of where the tentacles of power lead. It's a lovely new interpretation of the American pioneerism: John Huston's Noah Cross serves as one of the more indelible and paradigmatic characters in recent movies. He singlehandedly demystifies the American dream. The connection he embodies between incest, political power and capitalism finds a voice in his eloquent, filthy madness. Robert Towne's amazing screenplay sketches the self-cannibalizing character of urban growth. There is no scene in the movie which doesn't reek of the Noah Cross character's scent...
STILL, IT REMAINED the unspoken hope of the immigrants through the Second World War, Howe writes, that "their visions and ambitions, the collective dream of Jewish fulfillment and the personal wish to improve the lot of their sons and daughters could be satisfied at the same time." In the ambitious second half of the book, Howe analyzes Yiddishkeit as the culture of the postponed decision. The "modernized" fiction of Yiddish culture grappled with universal themes of class struggle, personal relations and urban anomie as well as with the Jewish experience in eastern Europe. Uneasy Yiddish theater, trapped between the artistic...