Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recites a solid right-wing litany of tax cuts, spending limitations, deregulation. But almost more important to the candidate is his fervor about the U.S. ("Most magnificent thing man has created"), hard work ("Dependence is not good for anybody"), individualism ("Most talented work force in the world"), hope ("The dream is not over"), fulfillment ("Every job is meaningful") and purpose ("The proper relationship of government...
...such a relationship myself," says Giovannetti. "Not true. Some of the people are real, with names changed, some are half real, but the girl is one of the inventions." Nevertheless he does note that spy and priest, ironically, have something in common in their abstinence and discipline. "Panin could dream what Righi could not," says the author, "but in the final analysis they were both committed to an austere life...
...show abounds in deliberately "poetic" photographs, over which surrealism?which, one is I reminded, Susan Sontag claims to be the natural mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969?a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost...
Returning to the land and living off it is a stubborn American dream. It persists even though small farmers are leaving in droves. Without being maudlin about it, Perrin laments their passing and the dis appearance of a way of life that knit hard ships and satisfactions together. He never pretends that part-time farming is the same as the real thing. But by clearing fields and keeping boundaries intact, he at least stages a holding action against total loss. And telling others how he has done it preserves that hold...
...card in Monopoly: the Commercial Trust Co. of Jersey City mistakenly notified him that $100,000 had been credited to his account. A bachelor who eked out a living buying and selling coins, Walsh quietly withdrew the money and set out to pursue his modest version of the American dream...