Word: dreamt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these introspective pieces comprise nothing less than a corrective statement on the modern view of the universe and the human priorities set within it. Like a latterday, lab-trained Hamlet, Eiseley confronts his fellow scientists with the charge that there are more things in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in their philosophy. His book is one long repeated warning that "the wild reality always eludes our grasp...
...Reverend Karl Rahner, D.D., German Jesuit theologian. There are very few things in heaven and earth that are not dreamt of somewhere in your philosophy...
...contact on a human level: "We Arabs are living under an occupation and are just waiting for the Israeli army to withdraw." According to him the Jews are not helping the cause of peace either: "They are enjoying their victory; they are living on the territory they always dreamt about having." I ask the mayor what will help the cause of peace. He replies that the only solution is the total withdrawal of the Israeli forces...
...Left." If he is that, he is also a product of the government's treatment of dissenters characteristic of the post-McCarthy period. He once said that he imagined that the current crop of war resistors probably started out being "nice, sincere, honest, strictly legal, thoughtful guys who never dreamt of being radical or of taking a step that would put them in prison." He might as well have been describing himself...
That was when she still dreamt into the future. But one day when she was busy dreaming, a desperate little song interrupted her--"I wish he'd stay ... with me forever? ... for the rest of the year? ... til Friday...