Word: dreaming
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Perhaps the major issue in the campaign was Thatcher's dream of a more prosperous, more assertive Britain in contrast to Labor's view of a country in crisis. It was Labor, however, that had presided over many of the country's frequent economic crises in the 1960s and '70s. By the time Thatcher arrived in 1979, Britain was saddled with a costly welfare state in which labor- management relations were mired in class conflict and industry was aging and inefficient. Since then, Thatcher has transformed Britain more dramatically than any Prime Minister since Clement Attlee, who presided over...
Andrew Wyeth might summer there. Bob Newhart could run the colonial inn. Eastwick -- it looks like a travel poster for the New England dream. It surely boasts a trio of dream girls: Alexandra (Cher), who sculpts clay Earth Mothers; Jane (Susan Sarandon), who cues the school band with a hearty "Horns up!"; and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), abustle with her six kids. All are displaced, not quite fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they...
...demand for child care. First came the feminist movement of the '60s, which encouraged housewives to seek fulfillment in a career. Then economic recessions and inflation struck in the 1970s. Between 1973 and 1983, the median income for young families fell by more than 16%. Suddenly the middle-class dream of a house, a car and three square meals for the kids carried a dual-income price tag. "What was once a problem only of poor families has now become a part of daily life and a basic concern of typical American families," says Sheila B. Kamerman, a professor...
Part memoir, part self-help manual, Everything to Gain combines some rather obvious advice on how to stay healthy (do not smoke, fasten seat belts, exercise regularly) with strikingly candid personal reflections. After the 1980 presidential defeat, Rosalynn reveals, she was reluctant to give up the dream that her husband might again run for President and win. Daughter Amy, then 12, announced that she did not want to live in Plains, Ga. "You may be from the country," she said. "But I'm not." (She went to boarding school instead.) On a lighter note, the Carters write that...
...disturbed by the moral malaise in the U.S. ((ETHICS, May 25)), perhaps we should check American attitudes to find the root of the problem. The American dream of the "good life," a label for our unchecked individualism, has led us to a state where opportunities have become rights and rights have become untouchable. Religion and morality are maintained not as guideposts of conduct but as props to make us look as if we were the good folks...