Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puffing contentedly on his pipe, President Anwar Sadat gazed out the window of Egyptian 01 at one of the Israeli Kfir fighters that escorted him part of the way from Tel Aviv to Cairo. "Just look at what has changed in only 40 hours," he said. "Did you ever dream that Anwar Sadat would be received as a hero in Israel...
...concessions-in fact, he did not expect any, at least not right away-the Egyptian President had suddenly transformed the nature and direction of Middle East diplomacy. Once more the road to Geneva was open, and the possibility of a Middle East settlement was something more than a distant dream...
...chronicles a decline as moving as it is horrifying. By the time Schwartz reached 30 his center could no longer hold. He had started to drink heavily. His marriage broke up. One day in 1947, suddenly and finally, he left Harvard, convinced of his double exile from the American Dream: as a poet...
...eight, his family moved to Beverly Hills. Rick was in his first production at the local Jewish center when he was nine. "I never got less than the lead after that," he boasts. By the time he was twelve he was reciting Shakespeare before the bathroom mirror. His dream-then, now and probably for-evermore-was to play Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic to me," he says...
...formal arrangement, it would be hard to imagine a more organized image than this: the chair could not be shifted an inch, or the angle of the girl's legs a degree, without some loss. But it is also a strangely equivocal picture, a filter of memory, dream and half-sublimated desire, without a trace of sentimentality. It is not a "modern" painting. But no account of modern art that leaves out its author can make much sense...