Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woodrow Wilson's spiritualism, so fervidly translated into his political approaches, helped defeat his great dream of putting America in the League of Nations. But it was at the core of Wilson's talk and thought about peace, a legacy that has helped raise him to high historical status...
...meaning white businessmen set up the Urban Foundation to help improve the quality of life of black Africans, the reaction of many black spokesmen was that this would simply ameliorate apartheid rather than change anything basic. Says one black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes up one morning after a good dream and gives a million dollars. We don't want charity." The black hope for a peaceful solution has drastically diminished, but it has not disappeared. Says another black journalist: "There is not going to be a Congo here. Most black people would gladly move ahead and forget the past...
...Mess. Stevens, 48, a onetime construction worker from Oklahoma, took his dream to the folk at Stonybrook Full Gospel Temple down in Fremont, a Pentecostal church that he had scraped together. After a prayer meeting, five of the 70-odd parishioners agreed to sell their houses to make up half the down payment. The other half is due in August; then come stiff monthly payments...
...ordinary game. He did not hurry; he did not linger: there was a briskness and decisiveness about every movement, and whatever he may have felt, he did not betray it by as much as the movement of an eyelash. Yet he did not play as one in a dream, as people sometimes do at supreme crises: he was just entirely calm and entirely natural...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM...