Word: dreamt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Less than two months after the diary begins, Siegel records his visions of its commercial success, his potential as an "ephemeral public personality," and his chance for a shot at the Johnny Carson Show. But the height of chutzpah is the entry for Aug. 1, 1969: "Last night I dreamt I won the National Book Award for this diary." God forbid...
These images are interwoven in the manner of melodic lines, recalling Levy's ambition for cinema as music, with the same images (though invariably differently shot, and of different duration) recurring in a variety of contexts, elaborating, explicating, and redefining Max's condition, a condition in which each character, dreamt of or recorded, shares...
...Americans associate black militancy with white students' dissent?university revolts that the white Middle, brought up to cherish education as an almost sacred instrument of self-improvement, find incomprehensible. "San Francisco State is being destroyed by a bunch of crummy punks." says Eric Hoffer. "Who the hell would have dreamt that a thing like this was possible? Ignorant, bedraggled, illiterate punks! Our institutions are tremendously vulnerable. What are we afraid of? Of the Government? Of the police? Of Congress? No, for God's sake, we're afraid of the individual, of the beast masquerading as man." Some less volcanic thinkers?...