Word: daydream
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...student and a voracious reader. I was a popular girl and thought I was just the best dancer. To such bands as the Honey Drippers and Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five, I'd try out new steps for the jitterbug, the sand and other dances. I'd also daydream about boys and clothes and moving away from home to, well, anywhere. Cleveland, maybe, or even Chicago. I didn't have a plan...
...previously associated with gawky teenage genius and the American establishment.” Despite the fact that H Bomb is currently just the whimsical proposal of two college students—who happen to go to Harvard—the media seems to find these two girls’ daydream to be worthy of ample space on their news pages and time on their media shows...
...part will be maintaining the chain's hard-won brand cachet. That means keeping service levels high and stocking a $125,000 guitar that may take years to sell but gives shoppers something to drool over. "You'd never see Wal-Mart keep around merchandise just to help customers daydream," says Zackfia. But for Guitar Center, the very best customer is the one who's lost in the music...
Bear with this daydream for a moment: Instead of taking classes, I would be poring through well-thumbed novels acquired steadily through the years—even children’s books, although I’ve always despised that term which seems to trivialize all those well-loved, dog-eared copies of novels I’ve grown up with and come back to. Kay Thompson’s
...Once the daydream vanishes, however, reality welcomes me with the semester’s required texts that would pay for about fifty books I’d actually read voluntarily. “Reality,” of course, being the blatantly overpriced, overweight, overwhelming stacks of textbooks the Coop and the Science Center genially offer us every semester and which we tote home, gasping as we lug those slick white and red bags back to our rooms, where they will sit on our bookshelves—and, with luck, be read in the next few days before the midterms...