Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman. Using a fictional middle-aged American named Henry as his mouthpiece, Berryman comments on a whole range of human experience, particularly life during the past eleven years, and completes the poem cycle begun in 77 Dream Songs...
...what they felt was a newspaper's slur of Mohammed, exploded in a brief outburst of violence that cost five lives. The two clashes were the latest manifestations of the communal hatreds that have plagued India for generations-and are the chief obstacles to the long-cherished dream of Indian unity...
...humor is as contemporary as the minute hand on a watch. For example, the hero is about to enter college. His father asks him what he intends to major in. The boy replies, "Hotel management," since he dreams of running his own hotel. The father says that he too had had a dream, that of owning a liquor store, but it had never come true. He cautions the boy that he must be realistic and have something solid to fall back on. Replies the boy: "I'm minoring in cinema...
...tastes range from a memorable arrangement of America the Beautiful for forty oil drums, to the Inaugural performance of All We Like Sheep by that otiose organ of musical dyspepsia, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Television emerges briefly from its ashcan to air a splendid production of Midsummer Night's Dream and then proceeds to ruin the gesture by taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement the next day celebrating its wondrous beneficence. The Trustees of our orchestras are unconquerably reactionary, hopelessly clinging to the Romantic core of the repertoire. The ungainly orchestral apparat of a tableau vivant of funereal...
...agonizing universality of their situation and participate in it, free as you are rarely free in this time to see people as human begins and not as symbols of others things. Eve says in the film that she sometimes feels as though she is part of someone's dream, someone who will fell ashamed when he awakes. This is the shame, the obscene separation of people from themselves by acquiescing to someone else's organizational dream; the shame is the paralysis of the ability to decide what is right. You may find many other things in this film...