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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weber ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court captured the spirit of the civil rights movement. Such an interpretation can act to reassure many that possibly the American dream can be realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...armed the National League's 7-6 win in Seattle). Crystal, a B student, will enter the sixth grade this fall. But right now she's concentrating on leading the Phillies into the league playoffs and pursuing what used to be only a little boy's dream: to be a major league baseball player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Phillies' Champion Filly | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...bare dirt when the Butlers bought the house shortly after World War II, the garden now blooms with some 300 varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees. Other amateur gardeners stop by to ask for cuttings and to trade notes on lush hybrid ivy. Such a bower well fulfills that dream of true Englishmen expressed in 1664 by Poet Abraham Cowley: "I never had any other desire so strong ... as that I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Nation of Gardeners | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...apocalyptic optimism and encyclopedic learning. She also took time to ponder the casualties that Shelley's blithe spirit left in its wake. In the year before she began Frankenstein, she bore Shelley a daughter who lived less than two weeks. She confided a heartbreaking vision to her journal: "Dream that my little baby came to life again, that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lived. Awake and find no baby. I think about the little thing all day." Not long after Mary started her novel, Shelley's abandoned first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man-Made Monster | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Frankenstein is not simply a woman's revenge. It is not, in fact, simply any one thing. Beneath its rhetorical, overwritten surface, the novel moves as fitfully as a dream, allowing as many interpretations as there are willing interpreters. The classic Karloff films take only part of the story and twist that as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man-Made Monster | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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