Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word." The closest any candidate comes to articulating a vision is when he calls upon America's compassion for the needy, but such calls seem meant to indicate that the candidate is warmhearted, and not, as Martin Luther King Jr. would have said, that he has a dream today...
...That dream ended abruptly with a vision of my thesis evaluation, written by Gov tutors. There was only one brief comment: "You mess with us; we mess with you. No Distinction." In the background of my dream I hear Freddy laughing...
Another time, I dreamed about writing about the politics of food distribution at Harvard, examining why Adams House gets good lettuce, while Winthrop gets pale colored cardboard. In my dream I discovered an underground network of rats who controlled where food went in the River Houses...
...Often I dream about other topics I could have written on, topics which in my dreams would have kept me interested far into the next decade (when I will be completing my thesis...
...doubtless making a pro forma reference to the old dream of reunifying China under Nationalist rule. But his observation applied equally to a more realistic mission that has been largely attained: transforming Taiwan from an impoverished paddyland backwater into a prosperous modern society. Today the island nation is a midsize economic powerhouse that produces the world's eleventh largest volume of exports...