Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golden Line" the location of what was to be 1951's last-ditch stand against the Communists -the four-year-old academy last week graduated its first class. Guns boomed, the band blared, sabers flashed in the sun. "Today," said President Rhee. "is just like a dream...
...dream come true for the entire nation. When K.M.A. was founded in 1951, the South Korean army officers' corps had as confusing a background as the country's history itself. Some officers had been trained with the Japanese. Some had served with the Chinese Nationalists, a few had been taught by German military advisers, still others had gone to the U.S. or had taken short R.O.T.C. courses. In 1951, with $500 out of his own pocket. Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet started the drive for a permanent academy...
...reader is forced to sympathize with Krull; he represents a little of the dream, of the desire to make something out of nothing which is in every man, he succeeded in his dream; he is so very, very clever. Yet a moment's thought shows that Mann is quite as clever as his character; the reader is forced to criticize an institution which perhaps he once admired. Mann is a propagandist here--more subtle perhaps than the violent dialogues stop Der Zauberberg, but just as effective...
Four Paris Fun. "Dream Street" is booming because Columnist Sylvester, unlike most of his competitors, lays no claim to omniscience, peddles no phony inside dope, and conducts no esoteric feuds. He cheerfully admits that "I have no pipeline to the Kremlin and no idea what Congress is going to do." He thinks a Broadway column should be "entertaining, give people a laugh." To do so, he serves his readers a dry Manhattan-four-parts fun to one-part reporting. Now a balding 48, Sylvester covers a bright-light beat that ranges from the East Side Chinese Laundromat called "Helpee Selfee...
...DREAM OF KINGS, by Davis Grubb (357 pp.; Scribner; $3.95). Abijah Hornbrook was just a Virginia ne'er-do-well who left his family to fend for themselves, but his eight-year-old daughter, Cathie, was sure that he would return some day a king. So was Tom, the orphan with whom she was raised. Tom had a vision of Abijah "high and lofty on a frothing mare ... a giant printed on the sky." Tom tells his own first-person story of how he grows to manhood in the Civil War South, thinking he hates Cathie, but really loving...