Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more, you will have helped South Africans to find each other. Perhaps in time this country could become a shining example of brotherhood among the races and could play a decisive role in eradicating the true enemies of man in Africa-ignorance, disease and hunger. This is a dream many of us have. It is this dream that has brought us into conflict with the government, but a dream nevertheless that we pray will one day become a reality...
...long been a dream of population-control experts, to say nothing of millions of men and women all over the world: a safe antidote that can be taken after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. Such a perfect morning-after pill still eludes medical science. But Japanese researchers believe they have developed the next-best thing, a vaginal suppository. If administered as early as two weeks after a woman has missed her period because of pregnancy, it can induce abortion about 90% of the time with barely any side effects...
...something to do with the new film's financing, which is British, but it is a disastrous one. There was an enthusiastic, obsessional air about the crookedness Marlowe used to encounter in L. A. The weirdos he kept turning up in his cases sensed that the American dream had newly relocated there, and everyone was feverishly intent on grabbing his share-getting in on the ground floor, as it were. Good, gray London hasn't been like that since Will Shakespeare's day-or anyway, Charles Dickens'-and the correlation between landscape and Chandler...
...fairness, there were one or two enchanting moments. The second act consisted mainly of a lengthy dream-sequence where the Princess Aurora and her attendant nymphs danced before the bedazzled Prince. Here the ensemble choreography abandoned the conventional interlocking straight lines, and worked a tapestry of fluid configurations. Dancers bordered the stage in an open rectangle, clustered in a small circle, dipped into a deepening zigzag, or fell to the floor in a smooth oval, their long gowns floating out around them like water lily-pads. When the curtain fell, the patterns lingered in the mind like a figure-skater...
...core mistakenly assumes that the predominantly elite, middle-aged, white, male Harvard Faculty can discover and prescribe a single academic program that is central to the intellectual development of every Harvard student. In reality, however, students will eventually confront life-styles and problems that many Faculty members will never dream...