Word: daydreamer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matthews Hall isn't large enough to contain the profundity that keeps its inmates awake far into the night. Every so often an exciting adolescent daydream or the insight of a bull-session is offered to a larger audience than a group of roommates, in the form of an undergraduate play...
...hasty attempt to deprecate the success of Russia's man-carrying spaceship, President Kennedy got lost in an old scientific daydream. Cheap fresh water extracted from salt water, he said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came...
...vision of an England where the pound is steady, the sun is usually shining and the club goes on forever is perhaps essentially the daydream of a perennial expatriate; Wodehouse has spent two-thirds of his adult life in the U.S. But the author builds his country houses in the air with such zest, charm and comic invention that they are always worth the price of the tour...
...though it runs long enough (2 hrs. 6 min.) to make the over-twelve sector squirm. Family seems likely to recoup most of Disney's 1960 losses: $1,500,000. The tigers are pretty, the boa is a swallowpaloosa, the tree house is a little boy's daydream. And the violent, ludicrous last-reel battle with the pirates is a grand display of blow-the-man-downmanship-a regular Donald Duck comedy in live action...
Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every march." Said Winston at his father's death in 1895: "The dunce of the family will take revenge on the whole pack of curs and traitors...