Word: daydream
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Druids' Stones. Duncan Cameron's life has been a pastel daydream. His widowed mother has raised him in a pettishly feminine atmosphere; to the 13-year-old boy home is an "enchanted castle, like the Lady of Shalott's." When his mother dies and he rides off to his Uncle Gerald's shabby farm, the boy's heart twists in fear. He remembers Gerald as an ex-army man, redolent of polished leather, who fills him with indefinable alarm. Nevertheless, at first the orphan is surprised and delighted with his new home, relishes its bouncy...
...checked food items for Peoples Drug Stores, Inc. in Washington, 32-year- old Frank Porterfield had a wonderful recurring daydream-he pictured himself leading his National Guard MP platoon in dashing feats of arms. Like his guardsmen, Lieut. Porterfield was tired of the dull routine of study and drill which filled their Tuesday evenings at the armory. He decided to put his dream...
...continues along the same pleasantly minor way. MacNeice's poems are bedded in the conviction that western man is living in a bad time and that he must make the most of each immediate moment. With this moderate epicureanism, he values most the pleasures of physical existence, the "daydream free from doubt" which is art, and an attitude of simple respect for fellow men. On such a tentative basis men can still live in the modern world...
Psychiatry recognizes two main types of mental illness, although there is no sharp distinction between them. The man who wanders so far from reality that he lives in a daydream is a psychotic, suffering from, a psychosis (psychiatrists consider "insanity" an oldfashioned, legal term, without medical meaning). The man who cannot be happy with his environment or himself - who suffers from his own slanted view of the world - is suffering from a psychoneurosis (neurosis for short). A psychotic is much sicker; but both psychotics and neurotics can be cured...
...Americans, the pert, sexy, but basically "nice" girl that Betty plays on the screen is young American womanhood at its best. To the eager young man, the ambitious stenographer, the Hollywood-hungry mother resolutely dragging her little daughter off to dancing school, Betty represents an attainable goal, a daydream that might come true. Grable's own life is a proof of the dream...