Word: dreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training, British Physicist Frank Stannard is a sober scientific observer concerned with the material world of matter and motion, of minute particles and massive reactions. By inclination Stannard is a dreamer. His antic imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...
...Dreamer. Both Cal's regents and its faculty are high on Heyns. To the regents, he represents a fine blend of diplomatic tact and no-nonsense firmness. "He is strong but open-minded in dealing with young people, though not so wild a dreamer that he will go off into orbit with them," says Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler. "He's a man who wants to be working in the tomorrow of education," adds Financier Norton Simon, "and tomorrow is already here at Berkeley." Faculty members are impressed by Heyns's demonstrated emphasis on teaching at Michigan, consider...
...livelihood. Life was harsh in Vitebsk, but he remembers his father, who changed his name from Segal to Chagal (Marc added the second l for euphony in French), as a good provider, a "simple heart, poetic and muted." Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young dreamer never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. When he was ridiculed for his astonishment, "it roused a hyena in me," and he began copying and improvising from magazines...
...storage cabinet for platitudes, the woman of tomorrow without a nose ("deleted because it usually shines and often gets in the way"). Always he returned to TIME covers, keeping a measured pace with the era, from sardine-boxed commuters to the heartbreaking Berlin Wall, from mechanical cows to Architect-Dreamer Buckminster Fuller-whose head, under the special Artzybasheff treatment, became a geodesic dome...
...daughter should be fragile, but Piper Laurie is invulnerable, too blooming healthy by half. The acting task is noticeably beyond her when she tries to convey an unanticipated breath of life with cocktail-party animation. As for the son, he should be as insubstantial as glass, a dreamer caught between his mother's mirage of the past and his own dream of the future, but there is more petulance than poetry in George Grizzard's steely eye and shifty stance...