Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONVINCING the Irish of that is not a task for mortals. Dreams outlive men, and the imagined glory of "The Cause" has persisted despite the rise of a new generation of killers to fight for it. Taking that dream away from an Irishman--even a State-side cousin like Father Thomas O'Neill--requires major psychic surgery, cutting and tearing away at years of proper and rigid upbringing, decades of instinctive hatred. It is hardly a task that can be accomplished in a day or two--it must take months, even years, before the realization sets...
...songs, soap operas, tea dances and simple-minded optimism mean a return to romanticism, then give me the harsh realism of my "generation of nightmares." The "self-indulgence" of those who gave their time, money and sometimes lives to the antiwar and civil rights movements helped make the current dream ride possible. The '60s were no sentimental journey, but we survived those years by living, not dreaming through them...
...Opoet, Dream like an enormous flood; Let the work of your bed Be stilled; The night Comes and shines. The earthworms are multiplying; The river Winks And I am ravished...
...American-occupied land near by that would be ceded to Panama under the treaties. Panamanians are even now enlarging the country's international financial center, an outpost of 81 banks from all over that are lured by the country's easy tax and currency-convertibility laws. The dream: to make Panama a kind of Latin Switzerland...
...unsparing" statements about American reality for which Hanson's work is customarily praised have been made over and over again by photography: only the switch into another medium, sculpture, is novel. There is also, of course, the exquisite irony that collectors who would never dream of having a real construction worker in their living room will pay up to $35,000 to display the fiber-glass replica of one by Hanson: these effigies have the same relationship to social reality as a stuffed rhino does to the veld...