Word: dream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream you could...
...Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete with all the other companies in the country, I'll be satisfied...
...Bowl ballads, is a melancholy portrait of a misanthropic, malcontented wanderer "who passionately hates his life and likewise fears his death." The album's title song, John Wesley Harding (who "was never known to make a foolish move") is an oldtime saga about a kind of Nietzschean super dream...
...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a lucid and persuasive essay, the 85-year-old German philosopher urges his countrymen to build a nation based on individual responsibility rather than on an atavistic dream of a perfect state...
...with abortion, In Harm's Way with seduction and promiscuity, and Bunny Lake Is Missing with moody perversion, all elements with which Preminger has always felt at home. Preminger's characters remain frustrated or trapped, happy endings notwithstanding: we know that the assumed union of the detective and his dream-girl in Laura will end in disillusion, as the dream becomes dull reality; similarly, the Cardinals' meditative peace at the end of the film is not a reconciliation with God but a practical compromise with reality. With European detachment, Preminger stands outside the tense and ugly world, watching with carful...