Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps, Dingwall & Co. have found many explanations for the goings-on at Borley that require no ghosts to support them. An early rector, to whom some of the first visions appeared, was found to have been a chronic victim of a disease which caused him to sleep, perchance to dream, almost constantly. Price's own unpublished papers reveal that Mrs. Foyster, the young and restless wife of the aged and ineffective rector who followed the Smiths into Borley Rectory, showed a naughty tendency to fake ghostly manifestations. And Price, himself, it turned out, was not above tossing a pebble...
Brazil's new President has made his countrymen a vast promise-not merely to cope with the old, urgent problems of sprinting inflation and nagging debts, but to push and pull the nation a long way toward the bright dream of tomorrow-in his own phrase, to achieve "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Kubitschek is a man with a political flair and a remarkable capacity for work; he will need both...
...show. But the budget, more than doubled to $4,000, is still low, and the time spot (Sun. 11:30 a.m.) is as bad as ever. Nonetheless, Producer Herridge gave a good account of himself. His opening program was a dramatic enactment of Dostoevsky's short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Well acted by Canadian John Drainie, it had what TV shows rarely have-an imaginative combination of literate vigor and moral point, plus a quality of probing wonder against which any televiewer could stretch his own mind...
...Night My Number Came Up. Thirteen people are caught in a dream that starts to come true: a low-voltage shocker from Britain, with crackling good performances by Michael Redgrave, George Rose (TIME...
Many look askance at the possibility of effective United Nations action. Perhaps the idea of the U.N. ever assuming an active responsibility is now an idle dream. There is, however, almost no other means of asserting our desire for peace convincingly or effectively. And even though a border guard could not arrange a lasting peace, it would at least halt the development of hostilities--calming the atmosphere and making rational consideration on both sides more possible...