Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot be said to have invented the diary form, Mallon observes, "he more or less perfected it." Crack open his daybooks anywhere and a surprisingly modern figure emerges, with his ambition, flaws and lust intact. ) He plays up to the powerful, pans a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu...
...monster whose many faces, all different, all grotesque, pop up around the globe without hint of their coming. Defined broadly, the terrorist is the perpetrator of political violence, one who, to paraphrase Clausewitz, seeks to extend war by other means. Rarely does the crime itself fulfill the terrorist's dream; it is usually designed to achieve revenge, publicity, leverage or anarchy. The year saw savage terrorists in all their guises, but 1984 also witnessed a clamorous debate over whether and how a government should strike back...
...large, they voted against the Democratic ticket, not just 63% of the men but 56% of the women), whether they liked or disliked Ferraro, her campaign probably advanced by at least ! ten years the full participation of women in the responsibilities and opportunities of the American dream. When she told women, "If we can do this, we can do anything," tens of thousands shouted back, echoing her resolve. Robert Kennedy would quote George Bernard Shaw: "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' " Democracy depends on those dreams...
...history and with the reluctant realization, after four stimulating years of intellectual fellowship, that he was homosexual. A legacy from a deceased aunt made job hunting unnecessary, which probably spared the world some comic encounters. For Forster at that period seemed qualified to do nothing but stumble and dream...
...ectoplasmic emanations in these first stories badly need a touch of the humdrum, some ballast of reality not perceived as nightmare or dream. In The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock (1950), Garcia Márquez adopts an entirely new voice. Chiefly through dialogue, he turns what has been the daily routine between a prostitute and the owner of the restaurant she frequents into a collision of moral and life-and-death choices. If this stark story suggests the influence of Hemingway, the next one announces the sway of William Faulkner. Nabo: The Black Man Who Made...