Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food; not housekeepers living in the "slave" quarters of fancy homes, but wretched families living in cardboard shacks that wash away in the winter floods; not gardeners driving beat-up Chevy's, but beat-up human beings for whom the prospect of owning a car is a hopeless dream...
Nineteen years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., black and white Americans alike say the nation is still far from fulfilling his dream of seeing the two races live in harmony. An overwhelming 92% of blacks and 87% of whites polled for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman* agree with the statement "Racial prejudice is still very common in the U.S." Fully 59% of blacks say they have been insulted because of their race at one time or another. But blacks and whites diverge sharply when asked about the reasons and remedies for America's enduring dilemma...
...remote broadcast making the entire nation privy to the anguish of the Phelps family, whose daughter is trapped in a well. The reporter on the spot, no less than his listeners, expects the incident to end happily. Everything always did on the radio, which was an even more efficient dream machine than the movies. But no. The child dies. The dismay in the announcer's voice is caused not only by an "unexpected human tragedy" but by the way reality has let down the medium...
...think it started on the bus ride back," Taylor says. "The undergraduate players were talking about how close we had come and how much we wanted to get back there next year. I don't know whether [an NCAA Championship] is a dream. We're thinking we can get to the Garden [for the ECAC Championship game]. And then, maybe, get home ice for the NCAA Tournament. If we do that, I think we'll be in the Final Four...
Students often dream of turning their thesis into a popular book. Researched with the help of the U.S. ambassador to Britain (who just happened to be his father), John F. Kennedy '40 wrote his thesis on "Appeasement at Munich (The Inevitable Result of the Slowness of Conversion of the British Democracy from a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy)." After graduating, the future president did some additional editing and then published the book which first brought him notice: While Britain Slept...