Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Class of '79, Harvard hockey has been a series of ups and downs, of bizarre twists and weird, less-than-happy endings. But this latest blow has been the cruelest of all, a sad denouement to a faded dream...
...work well. She obliterated Presley's rough edges and raw power. "Blowing Away," a lethargic, mournful ballad in which producer-manager Asher sings background, dies before it starts, lacking the poignancy that makes Ronstadt's slowest songs click. A 1934 Oscar Hammerstein song, "When I Grow Too Old to Dream," despite a pretty electric piano line, also falls short. Ronstadt plays with a cutesy, childlike voice which makes the song sound almost like a nursery rhyme set to music...
...Farrah Fawcett-Majors. She is not the most beautiful woman in show business, or by any means the sexiest, but her well-scrubbed cheerleader's features remain fresh and even invigorating. Whether by accident or design, she has become one of America's last old-fashioned dream girls: pretty, yet down to earth; inviting, yet wholesome. When she flashes her Cinemascope smile, men do not feel lust so much as nostalgia. Like the blonde in the T-bird in American Graffiti, Farrah Fawcett-Majors is the girl that every boy chased after in high school but could never...
What about the '60s, you ask. Sure, we all remember "I have a dream" and the civil rights movement dragging a whole society kicking and screaming partway out of its cave. Sure, we puddle with nostalgia over the hundreds of thousands who massed in Washington for the moratoriums against the Vietnam War. But those were the clear-cut issues, glamorous in a strange way; they were drama. But where was the institutional depth to deal with the more complicated structural issues, the inbred capitalist priority system? Check out your own neighborhood to see how far we still have...
...fall after Seaver was sold. Giamatti in fact proclaims that baseball is "a sport that touches on what is most important in American life"--a belief enhanced by a whole theory he says is epitomized by Seaver. "The sadness of Seaver was that he came East with a dream and somehow it didn't work...