Word: dreaming
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...pleased? Maybe it's because you are in a place where the self came to discover what it could do on its own. Because of an unspoken awareness that all people everywhere are alone with their possibilities and that you live where that fact, both the menace and the dream of it, is the message of the land. Because the country is inside you: better or worse as you are better or worse; fairer, saner, kinder as you are any of those things. At night lie still and feel the struggles of your countrymen to make the progress...
During the 1972 presidential campaign, the Democratic candidate George McGovern discovered something about the American dream. Speaking to some workers in a rubber factory near Akron, he made a promise that he thought would make him popular with blue-collar workers. He said that he would increase inheritance taxes so the rich could leave very little to their families after their death. To McGovern's surprise, he was loudly booed. The workers didn't like the idea. They wanted to leave as much money as possible to their families. It was part of the American dream to make the next...
Theme parks? No: dream parks. Fish never looked more adorably anthropomorphic than they do performing at the three Sea World parks in Orlando, San Diego, and Aurora, Ohio. Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland. No city zoo ever boasted rides like the Congo River Rapids, the Stanleyville Falls flume or the vertigo-inducing Scorpion--all to be found at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Early Christians never found accommodations as plush as the ones...
...Fantasyland. The day's corrosive heat sent women's spiked heels sinking into the asphalt on Main Street. Nor was this a debacle to be covered over with Tinker Bell dust; the whole sorry spectacle was broadcast on a live TV special co-hosted by Ronald Reagan. WALT'S DREAM A NIGHTMARE, proclaimed the Los Angeles Tidings...
...also for students who have suddenly had a taste of what it might be like to have significant input in College decisions. There's a sweet taste to the concept that students could have a real voice in the policies that affect their lives. But dear as the dream might be, the year has also proven that the goal of student control has not been met and there's still a long road to be travelled...