Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pele's mission was also the soccer enthusiast's dream: having soccer spread across the U.S. [Sept. 12]. Now millions of people are into soccer, and it is evident by the record crowds that soccer is here to stay...
...Uniroyal's company magazine criticizing forced retirement. "The thing I was objecting to," he says, "is that someone picked a mandatory point. Age isn't a very good criterion." After reading the story, one of his former bosses offered him what might have seemed like a dream deal: a four-month consultancy at the company's Venezuelan plant. But the months were May through August, and Kuechenmeister discovered he no longer wanted a job that would deprive him of "the most beautiful time of the year in Michigan...
There remains, Kuechenmeister admits, a weed in his garden of pleasures. "Prices and salaries keep going up, but pensions don't," he observes. "I'm a little worried, but there's nothing I can do about it." One impractical dream: "If I only knew we were going to die at 70, say, we could spend all we have in the years that are left...
...painter but at 21 was discovered by Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova and invited to accompany her on a tour of the U.S. A decade later he returned to New York with his own troupe and introduced to the West a lavish, dramatic version of classic Indian dance. His dream, Shankar proclaimed, was to "create an atmosphere where the soul of India could speak...
...vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great War, the Russian Revolution and the Weimar Republic. This was the last period in which the dream of the engaged avant-garde seemed credible: that corrupt societies could be toppled and Utopias created with the aid of art. How Dada, surrealism, constructivism and the Bauhaus articulated this dream-and witnessed its failure-is the broad subject of these shows...