Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones saw the handwriting on the wall, and the words spelled nuclear war. So choosing to march to a different drum beat, Jones' disciples followed him into the jungle. Their humanistic dream: to build a better world. But, as it turned out, the handwriting was a forgery, the drummer was mad, the humanism bankrupt and the dream a nightmare...
...demonstrations subsided, the struggle between the regime and its opponents became increasingly one of rumor and propaganda. At one point, word spread through Iran's Shi'ite Muslim community that Ayatullah (Sign of God) Qumi of Mashhad had dreamed that he had been visited by Imam Reza, a saint of ancient times. In the dream, Reza complained that Shi'ite Leader Ayatullah Khomeini had been turning Muslim against Muslim and that his teachings were thus running counter to Islamic law. Among the faithful, many were stunned; others dismissed the report as a government trick...
...plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard. His theme is betrayal, not so much of the American dream as of the inner health of the nation. He focuses on that point at which the spacious skies turned ominous with clouds of dread, and the amber waves of grain withered in industrial blight and moral...
...life story is one of dedication to a cause and a refusal to abide by social stereotypes. She emigrated to the United States from Poland to marry and become a schoolteacher in Milwaukee, but promptly left both husband and job when she decided that her devotion to the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland overhelmed personal considerations. From the point of her immigration to Israel in the early '30s until her retirement as Prime Minister in 1974, Meir worked non-stop for the secure establishment of the state of Israel...
...dream, his inspiration," Morgenthau added...