Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zionist dream of making Palestine a Jewish State is doomed to failure, says Mr. Antonius, if for no other reason than that the Arab peasantry prefers death to giving up its land. Disgraceful as he considers the German treatment of Jews, the "cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland. ... No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another." He denies emphatically that Jewish money in Palestine has helped the lot of the Arab masses...
...supporting parts are so created as to add an undercurrent of unavoidable tragedy. The very simplicity of the story and its treatment gives the play a certain tenderness and poignancy, and the plot moves nervously and swiftly towards the doom which hangs over these men and their dream of the life they will never...
...Ukrainian separatist movement of the 19th Century was little more than a dream fostered by a few Galician intellectuals. During the World War it became a German-imported article which reached its greatest success when the Tsar was overthrown, the Russian armies collapsed and German Warlords Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff decided that the Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White...
Best scene is the dream scene where at the court of the czar, Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante stop the show indefinitely...
After being beaten black & white by straight photography, realistic painting has come back in exquisite disarray in the works of Surrealists Salvador Dali, René Magritte, et al. The vogue for their delicately painted dream pictures has caused a slighter vogue for "trompe l'ceil" (fool the eye) paintings, a form of virtuosity in every age since the birds came to peck at Apelles' painted grapes. Eyefoolers were, in fact, a popular specialty in the U. S. 60 years ago. Last week in Detroit an interesting U. S. Eyefooler of that period made news when it was snapped...