Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems strange now, from the vantage-point of the Pill amd of the "sexual revolution" and also of all the human distress that has accompanied the present era of family breakups, to look back on this other dream of marital eroticism. Such a daring dream, really, or at any rate one of great challenge--or foolishness. To dream that we were back with Dorothy in Kansas when in fact we were watching Mick Jagger get his first guitar; when Kansas itself was already changing, subtly, beneath the surface; when in fact everything was changing, getting ready to change, bursting forward...
Wolf is author of A Dream of Dracula and The Annotated Dracula...
...review of Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden [May 23], Peter Stoler says, "Sagan wonders, why do infants, who presumably have little or no experience to sort out, seem to dream as much as their elders...
Most people dream that they will some day, somehow, strike it rich. They share a pleasurable and innocuous fantasy, akin to pubertal pinings or the hankering of grown men-and women-to sail around the world, learn the Hustle or inhabit the White House. The reality of American life in 1977 might appear to make daydreams of wealth more chimerical than ever in the nation's history. Indeed, in an age of brutal taxation, constricted opportunity and entangling laws, most dreamers of wealth concede that Mars or Margaux might be more attainable than megabucks...
...performers earn meager sums, primarily because of the excessive supply of aspirants. For them, as Economics Professor Clair Vickery of the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations in Berkeley puts it, a performing job is like "buying a ticket in a lottery." It mainly feeds the dream of that legendary Big Break that could bring them the juicy tax problems of a star...