Word: dreaming
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This hint at sexlessness is further developed in another piece. Featuring yet another unique style, "Overture and Incidental Music for a `Midsummer Night's Dream'" develops a name in Shakespeare's play into a character, the Herm. This creature is simultaneously the source of desire and puzzlement to all the denizens of the forest--from Puck, who is a hairy, horny little bugger in Carter's fantasy, to Oberon and Titania...
America, however, is still the home of his greatest ambitions. "My dream is to take over an important American company and use it as a base of my operations," he says as he sits in his Monte Carlo apartment. Khashoggi wants to leave his mark on the world the way he stamps AK on the cufflinks he gives employees for Christmas. But like such ancient figures as Midas and Croesus, he may end up remembered as something more ephemeral, a man known for the way he accumulated and spent his phenomenal fortune...
...addition to the awe inspiring landscape, there was more to contemplate than on the first trip. My analytic mind was forced into head-to-head combat with my childhood dream of paradise. The dream was bruised, the mind was mellowed. And I'm still moving to California...
...independence, the gorgeous homes and the groomed land--all parts of my dream future were made possible by a system relying on a subservient race to do the dirty work...
Almost two and a half decades ago, in the sweltering afternoon heat of our nation's capital, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of the day when "little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." If we hope to fulfill his dream, if we want to counteract the conservative backlash that threatens our nation today, we must remember what King has taught us and follow his lead. Failure to recall his struggles and his vision will cause us to plummet inexorably to the base...