Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decades, the rest of America and the world expected the Big Apple to be the prime source of sustenance for the poor, homeless, huddled masses. Now, because it's gone broke trying to fulfill the American dream for so many, we turn our backs...
...line. In so doing, they committed themselves to purchases ranging from a few thousand dollars to a high of $11,000 for arid half-acre homesites that had cost AMREP about $90. The buyers were usually middle-and lower-class working people; a plot at Rio Rancho was their dream. Its value would double, triple, quadruple, they were assured, but they were not allowed to take sales material away from a dinner party until they had signed a contract...
...took over managerial control from the man who was once its chairman and began doing away with his members-only notion. "Tres Vidas," announced Braniff, "is a private-membership country club. Guests are currently being accepted on a get-acquainted basis ..." With visions of the hoi polloi overrunning their dream resort, remaining members began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff had converted Post's dream into an open resort, and was making an all-out bid for middleclass tourists. But they too stayed away, preferring the Las Vegas glitter of Acapulco...
...Ford's New York is machinelike and anti-individual, Beame's is plain, small scale, an integral part of America. "New York is truly an American city," he says. "It is a town [!] which had a stake in the American Dream 150 years before the United States was born." This New York, practically a preurban village by this point in the speech, is concerned with the welfare of "the innocent, the powerless and the least resilient members of our society." It has all the homespun virtues Ford feels so much fondness for; its sense of humanity and of national community...
When America's liberal Reform Jews last revised their prayer book in 1940, the Nazi Holocaust had barely begun and the nation of Israel was only a dream-a dream opposed by many Reform Jews at that. Both realities are vigorously acknowledged. in the 799-page Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook, described as the first wholesale revision of Reform liturgy in 80 years (the 1940 version made only modest changes). One new service, "In Remembrance of Jewish Suffering," calls on the rabbi to say: "Exile and oppression, expulsion and ghettos, pogroms and death camps: the agony...