Word: daydreamers
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...world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes a leaf out of some good notebook. This time it is from Edgar Allan Poe's, Ambrose Bierce's, Daniel Defoe...
...class" magazine for men-like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue for women- has long been a publisher's daydream. Last week it appeared. Its name: Esquire, "The Quarterly...
...grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...
...with superior-minded school children is a mighty problem for mental hygienists. Dr. Leta Sletter Hollingworth of Columbia defined the smart child's plight. If he is kept in a grade with ordinary children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting and being able to do many...
...know in the second act where to have the play. Ethel's snakelike husband calls her a mock Lady Macbeth. She has married this Harold Carter, older and colder than herself, for security, and hopes of seeing the world. To get her, he deluded her with a daydream of life in India. Now that he knows she will never love him, he poisons her daydreams. Their mutual hate-although the play does not quite show how-becomes their bond. Through a lover she contrives his murder...