Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pipe Dream (music by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II). Always anxious not to repeat themselves, Rodgers & Hammerstein have turned in Pipe Dream to the flophouse and bordello set of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. When not cavorting, the bims and bums heave and push at a constantly stalled romance between a popular young scientist and a pretty waif befriended by a madam. To get Doc a microscope, Cannery Row stages a raffle and fancy-dress brawl, and when the lovelorn heroine takes up despairing residence inside a boiler, they have at the lovelorn hero to fetch...
...long while--67 years, to be exact--it looked as though Tillich and the University would never get together. Born in 1886 in Starzeddel, Prussia, the theologian recalls that as early as the eighth grade it was "my dream" to be a scholar. He studied theology and philosophy at various German universities, became both a Ph.D. and an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and then in 1914, caught up by the excitement of war, he volunteered to serve as a chaplain in the German army. About two weeks in the front lines were enough to quench...
...Detroit this week, an eleven-year-old dream of a beautiful and functional downtown civic center (see above) was approaching reality. On a 76-acre site along the Detroit River, the first buildings of the $100 million project, a 20-story City-County Building and a Veterans Memorial Building, were open to the public. A 2,800-seat auditorium named for Henry and Edsel Ford and a 700-car underground garage were almost finished, and a convention hall and exhibits building, seating 14.000 people, was about to be started...
Navy was too badly beaten to dream up excuses for the 14-6 score. "What hurt you most?" someone asked Navy Coach Eddie Erdelatz. "That's easy," said Eddie with a sad smile. "Army...
...Christopher and Cathie Hornbrook, whose growth to maturity forms the basis of the narrative, are both orphaned children living in the home of their stern and God-fearing Aunt Sarah. Cathie holds a dream that her father, in reality an unreliable adventure-seeker, will return to her as a rich and glorious king. She never completely rejects this dream until the moment of her death. Tom is both disturbed by and attracted to Cathie throughout their childhood, and at times almost abandons himself to her him has been a long time in the brewing...