Perhaps you think I'm seeing history through a rosy lens, imagining a time of compassion before I was even born.
This divided but glorious possessiveness is hard to imagine, a time of baseball by radio, with the late news spilling out of bars and taxis as you walked by, and names — Peewee, Willie, Eddie, Allie, Mickey, Sandy, Yogi — that you heard almost more often than those of folks in the family.
All the sunshine is deceptive: this was a time of intense conflict, as one might imagine when a ruler forcibly casts a popular religion aside.
2. As a class, read and discuss "Imagining John Lennon, in a Time of Anguish," focusing on the following questions: a.
Those of us who stopped working -- I was out of commission for six months and couldn't type normally for a year -- spent a lot of time imagining career options for a former journalist unable to type.
Over the years since playing SunDog, I've spent a lot of time imagining what a remake would be like.
In the nineteen-forties — the first decade in which all the major components of mass culture were up and running, even early television — the beloved focus of nostalgia was the innocent aughts of the early century, a time imagined as one of perky girls in long dresses and shy boys in straw hats.
A natural consequence of this aggressive originalism is that Thomas spends quite a lot of time imagining what life might have been like in 18th century America.
In her program notes Vicky Shick writes that "Glimpse," her newest dance, was choreographed in Budapest and New York, with "a lot of time imagining everyone together".
Anais also spends a lot of time imagining different families for herself — she's got "offensively rich parents" in Paris, say, or is the sole offspring of Timothy Leary's spirit guide and a forest nymph.
