Word: dreaming
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...Yiddishkeit, and the rapid Jewish dispersion into the mainstream of American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake of the assassination of czar Alexander II and the pogroms which followed, thousands of Jews left their homeland in the 1880s to fulfill their dream of a Jewish nation while hoping individually to gain some of the amenities of survival. The discovery that the two were mutually exclusive in America was the immigrants' tragic vision, according to Howe, and their subsequent individual decisions to assimilate were their tragic fall...
...woman picking through the garbage in downtown Santiago, looking for something to eat; Chile is 20-year-old Clara with her broad smile, who matter-of-factly told me that "about 50" of her friends were killed or disappeared in the coup; Chile is a ruined dream, a land drenched in sorrow and quivering with fear and desperation...
...opening chapters of Hughes' life read like a rather special American Dream Texas version. He had just about everything -money, talent, ambition. As a boy, he showed a remarkable innate talent for tinkering; he built one of the first licensed "ham" stations in Texas, using an old doorbell and an auto-ignition system. His father, known as "Big Howard," had developed the first oil-drill bit that could bore through rock, thus opening vast untapped fields to exploration. "Little Howard" was only 18 when his father died, but he persuaded a Texas court to declare...
Doris Kearns, 33, associate professor of government at Harvard, describes that last bitter period of L.B.J.'s presidency in Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a biography to be published by Harper & Row in June. It is a sad, dispiriting account of ebbing power and influence, of vast ego and appetites deflated, of a world collapsed...
...have played baseball at their Jersey St. hangout, but the 32,000 fans on hand for yesterday's Fenway opener knew better. It has been just a long yesterday since the Series games of Luis Tiant's pitching gyrations and Carlton Fisk's dancing home run--and the dream deferred last October quickly redeveloped for the Fenway faithful as the Red Sox, powered by a ten hit attack, downed the Cleveland Indians yesterday...