Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eighty-six years after his death, the name of Horatio Alger Jr. still conjures up unlikely memories of improbable dreams. In more than 100 of Alger's books for young readers, upstanding, hardwork- ing poor boys reached sudden and unexpected success by saving rich benefactors from terrible fates. But it turns out that Alger had a dream of his own -- to appeal to grownups. This July the Shoe String Press will publish for the first time Alger's Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure, a story of true love triumphing over mere monetary pursuits. Now in the archives at Syracuse...
...only is my drinking rudely interrupted by thoughts of the angst-ridden early writings of pre-war female Ukrainian poets and the exact date of Kandinsky's first non-expressionist painting, but the same people who I dream of torturing in section are getting two extra weeks to screw up the curve. And you can be fairly sure they're not going to lend me the briefcase full of notes they recopied back home under the Christmas tree...
King said her husband's work is still relevant 18 years after his death. "His work can be found in the ever-increasing chorus of struggling people everywhere," she said. "Not all the bullets and all the arsenals could kill his dream...
...dogmatic, too melodic ever to turn strident. Lawless Avenues, co-written with Jorge Calderon and driven home hard by Jim Keltner's full-torque drumming, is the album's centerpiece, a contemporary street epic set in a Southern California barrio, where none of the characters get a chance to dream or a clear shot at a fair shake. It is a truly spectacular song, fired by a heart that is still romantic and forged by a political spirit that will accept no alibis...
Running the biggest airline would be a dream come true at last for Frank Lorenzo, Texas Air's ambitious chairman, who failed in earlier efforts to buy Trans World Airlines and then Frontier Airlines. But a Texas Air-Eastern combination would be a nightmare for other airlines. Lorenzo has made Houston- based Texas Air, which owns Continental Airlines and New York Air, highly successful by paying relatively low wages and offering passengers cut-rate prices. As head of Texas Air and Eastern, he could easily trigger the most vicious fare wars that the industry has ever known...