Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moody, modey tune that began with the sound of footsteps in the rain and ended on the indeterminate, to-be-continued note. Its words revealed a valid adolescent's dream: a chance encounter, a blooming love affair, a tragic ending when the man borrowed her money to buy her a ring and then "skipped out of town," never to be seen again...
...airier touch. As charming as anything in the Louvre's show were 14 recent variations on The Women of Algiers, a famous harem picture by Delacroix. The variations, painted in a brief, 64-day period last winter, flung open the shutters of Delacroix's exotic little dream world. Some of the "variations" verged on parodies, both of Delacroix and of Matisse. (Said Picasso to a friend after Matisse died: "I will try to continue his work.") More intriguing to curiosity seekers was another recent work. Picasso's gay-as-a-flag red, white and blue portrait...
...dream man is the common man's opposite number, a lively, unpredictable fellow, unashamed to be crotchety, who keeps himself as free to judge society as society is free to judge him. He is guided by intuition and feelings as well as custom and intellect, is as concerned with the mysteries of religion and the unconscious as with the certainties of science. He might even become telepathic-there's no telling what he might do. Although he is clearly the product of a feminine imagination-in fact, he has everything but a dimple in the chin-this...
...French Foreign Legion," he wrote, "offers none of the adventurous romance you dream of. It has bitter experience in store for you. You risk your life. You may come out maimed, or ill, or morally weakened. He who enlists in the Legion brings no honor to Switzerland. Each of us has his troubles, but there are other ways of solving them. Talk to a friend, your teacher, your pastor . . . You will then realize that enlistment in the Legion is an act of cowardice...
...live to make it a better country in peace." To Morison, history was pre-eminently "a story that moves . . . that sings to the heart while it informs the understanding." In the front of one of his books stands a quotation that he might have written himself: "Dream dreams, then write them -aye, but live them first...