Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island's only fiction, "Grisha's Dream," by Gus Magrinat, is a vigorous little story about a moribund "retired intellectual." ("An intellectual is a man who has never forgotten his subconscious. A retired intellectual is an old man who, after years of grappling with himself, finds his intellect wandering like a knight errant and his appetites spent in a trickle of compulsions.") Magrinat's narrative is so engaging and moves so quickly that you are likely to find Grisha dead and the story finished before you realize that you've become pretty fond of the grandfatherly, lonesome eccentric...
Kathryn Walker is excellent as Raymonde, the wife whose romantic pranks and stolid middle-class sympathies recall Tom Sawyer and his day-dream exploits. Although not as fluid as Kaplan, she has caught the silliness necessary to her part, and her voice is the high piping it should...
...hipsterism came out of a drug dream heading for a star. But Gilbert's beautiful people use them as gimmicks to gain recognition and buy style, even if it is mass-produced. As the parties go on and on, the beautiful people become more pathetic than a middle-aged couple twisting to the jukebox in a Peoria roadside cafe...
...general, though, Playboy ads are discreet?no stag movies, no sex manuals. "Playboy takes the reader into a kind of dream world," explains Advertising Director Howard Lederer. "We create a euphoria and we want nothing to spoil it. We don't want a reader to come suddenly on an ad that says he has bad breath. We don't want him to be reminded of the fact, though it may be true, that he is going bald...
...dream extends to the magazine's editorial content, but there reality does intrude. Viet Nam has hardly ever been mentioned in its columns, but there have been eloquent pleas for abolishing the draft and capital punishment, and a defense of the right to privacy by Senator Edward Long. Long, long question-and-answer interviews, some of them aggressive and stimulating, lately recorded the views of Fidel Castro, Mark Lane and Norman Thomas?just the thing to read aloud to a date in front of the fire, he wearing a Playboy sweater, she wearing Playmate perfume...