Word: dreaming
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...vast egg. Barry Moser's illuminations treat these legends with dignity and delicacy, and go on to show dozens of other prime movers, including a feathered serpent, an octopus and Pandora. As the paintings prove, each figure is not only a people's fantasy but also an illustrator's dream...
...always Ronald Reagan's wish to take Gorbachev on a helicopter tour and show off the American dream by counting swimming pools in the backyards of factory workers. Gorbachev will have to settle for the Trump version of that dream. "I'm a representative of the American people," says Trump. "I want to let him know the American people are pretty good people...
Sharfstein's conclusion that "Jews have an obligation to insist on Israel's adherence to higher principles," while perhaps an idealistic dream, can only prove self-destructive for a state under seige. His presumptious knowledge of what is "morally right for Israel" seems at best, equally disturbing. Glen I. A. Schwaber...
...necessarily the subject of Dictionary of the Khazars. Instead, this novel disguised as a reference book seems to be dealing with some different Khazars, who occupied roughly the same space and time but who also possessed some otherworldly abilities. They numbered among their midst, for example, a cult of dream hunters, who could invade and move freely through the night thoughts of others. Unfortunately, these Khazars began to come to grief when their kaghan (ruler) decided in the eighth or ninth century that they should convert to Christianity, Judaism or Islam. Representatives of these religions were invited to present their...
...pastoral mode is a dream of escape. It rises, in literature, with a resentment of big-city life -- in the Alexandrian period, around 250 B.C.; two centuries later, with Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, it is in full spate; and from then on, Latin literature pullulates with rustic shepherds, flutes, nymphs and country retreats. When the classics were revived by Renaissance scholars (no strangers to urban anxiety themselves), the fantasy of the locus amoenus, the sylvan wilderness as "delightful place," moved to the forefront of the Western imagination. There it still reigns, vastly complicated and mutated by real necessity...