Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling class as the vehicle for change. The Spartacus Youth League does not share the illusion that if Harvard divests from companies doing business in South Africa, the rest of the world will follow suit, causing as economic collapse and the subsequent reform of apartheid. This is a pipe dream, designed to soothe the guilty consciences of liberal Harvard students and "morally purify" their university. This is what divestment is about, and this is why the campus fake-leftists did their best to drown us out when we took the opportunity between speeches to chant "Black Labor...
...warriors who stood for centuries frozen in time, frozen in unknowing enmity." The Fudan students, most of whom understood English, interrupted his speech nine times with applause. At the end, Reagan, his actor's head bobbing, clapped back. He told the students, "I just go home with a dream in my heart that we have started a friendship between two great peoples...
...lore-a craving that may have been the cause of some of David's troubles. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Paula Scully, a Boston-based fashion photographer and friend of Kennedy's, recalled watching David read an excerpt from The Kennedys: An American Dream, a soon-to-be-published book by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. "He bent his head over and said, 'My God, this is awful. It's trash,' " said Scully. "He felt betrayed and used," she added. "It was just one more time that he had been exploited...
...mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?" In December, with no fanfare, Reagan...
Critics quickly dubbed the Strategic Defensive Initiative "Star Wars." That sobriquet suggested a fantasy-not just a dream, but a pipedream, and a potentially perilous one at that...