Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright, ideal America like a holograph in his mind and projects its image in the air. This week the sky will be splashed with celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. The President will hand out the sparklers, and the nation will gaudily salute the American dream. Reagan, master illusionist, is himself a kind of American dream. Looking at his genial, crinkly face prompts a sense of wonder: How does he pull...
While the Statue of Liberty, whose 100th anniversary celebration begins today, represents a promise to America's immigrants, Harvard in many ways is the fulfillment of that dream. But that success can also mean the loss of an identity at the hands of Harvard, America's juggernaut of respectable heritage...
...even published a book on the subject (The Fair Tax) that forcefully laid out the case for reform. This week his persistence will be vindicated by the votes of many of the same Senators who only a few months before had written off tax reform as a hopeless dream...
...drafted No. 1 by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, what he called a "dream within a dream." The next day he made a lavish deal to wear Reebok shoes. On the third day, he died. No dream is emptier than death at 22, but the cruel death last week of Len Bias, the All- America from Maryland, got crueler. Cocaine was implied, maybe an experimental first taste. Friends considered even that unthinkable, but if the substance found in his car and system was cocaine, then in some dazzling order more rapid than a heartbeat, Bias must have...
...stocking feet . . . The best college player in America . . . One of the most happy people you'd ever want to see . . . He could jump through the roof." Like picks 1 through 17 in last week's draft, Bias was black. It is such a specious dream, to become a professional star and achieve unlimited wealth ("I'd like to buy a Mercedes," Bias declared first off in Boston). The thought of a young man dribbling almost all the way there and dropping dead is too bitter. If he killed himself, it is unbearable...