Word: daydreamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointment with Danger (Paramount) is the same rendezvous Alan Ladd has been keeping for years as a stoic man of action whose natural habitat is a daydream by Walter Mitty. But this time tight plotting, realistic backgrounds and good casting take much of the curse off the part of the synthetic tough guy who has made dangerous living into a comfortable livelihood for Actor Ladd...
When six-year-old Dickie Bonham began reading Mighty Mouse comic books a few months ago, he was overwhelmed by a pulse-stirring daydream: he began imagining himself flying through the air in red tights, a long-sleeved yellow pulloverand a flowing cape. He was a frail, asthmatic child, but doggedly determined; he hurried from his room in the Bonham home in Highland Park, Calif. and asked his mother whether he could learn to spread his arms...
...Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...
...prizes on a radio giveaway show. Until his "lucky" night, James Stewart is a happily married junior executive in a small-town department store. His only infidelity to his wife (Barbara Hale) and two un-Hollywooden children (Natalie Wood and Tommy Rettig) has been an occasional daydream about getting away from it all and taking a trip to the North Pole...
...masterpiece of the collection is Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, a terrifying portrait of a twelve-year-old boy who escapes from his real world to a daydream world of falling snow, then loses the real world completely in the ever-narrowing dreams of schizophrenia. It has long been an anthology piece, should long continue...