Word: daydreamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which Way Is Ireland?" Lindbergh carries five sandwiches in a brown paper bag, a canteen of water, a rubber raft, two small flashlights, a knife, and not much more except an iron will. For the first hours, that will is lightly tested, an occasional nodding daydream, a slight arm or leg cramp. Now & then he takes a swallow of water and keeps alert by checking his instruments and charts. But after nightfall, with The Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down...
When it comes Sandra's turn to marry, she vows to do better; she picks a young university professor. To Sandra, Francesco is her mother's daydream come true: kind, imaginative, companionable and loving. She is sure that he will make the best of husbands...
...counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks, has all the magnetic pull of an adolescent daydream come true...
Caught in a Dream. Something more than his overnight success and riches seems to bind Lanza to Hollywood. Caught in the daydream of a small boy, he is not ready to take up the role of the mature artist, the man from whom people have come to accept-and expect-a brilliant performance. It is easier to think of himself as a prodigy borne on the shoulders of the fans; every time he opens his mouth, he wants someone to be hearing his voice incredulously for the first fracturing time...
...Convictions. Barker's hero, who is nameless, is a young writer of 19 who has just been married to a girl three years older. His senses still swim in an adolescent daydream of genius. When he looks out of a window, he can envision a little girl being torn to pieces by archangels, but he can neither face the plain reality of his wife's pregnancy, nor meet a man's emotional and spiritual responsibilities in his marriage...