Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior space cadet may scream out in the night as he dreams man's ancient dream of falling through space, but he usually wakes up, at worst, on the floor, with nothing more than a slight bump. The real space traveler can count on no such happy ending. Space scientists believe that he will have to learn to live with a feeling of helpless falling while he flies through the stage of zero gravity. His nightmare will also include arms and legs that do not respond normally, and a sickening mental confusion about which...
...fiction, have shifted to about 75% nonfiction. Thus, except for the handful of magazines that are largely staff-written, free-lancers have become indispensable. "The free-lancer," says Collier's Editor Roger Dakin. "is the backbone of the magazine industry." He is also the substance of an American dream...
...good pay, independence, no office hours, etc., has attracted thousands of writers and would-be writers to freelancing. Last week, in one day, Satevepost alone received close to 300 manuscripts "over the transom," i.e., unsolicited. Self-help magazines-Writer's Digest, Author and Journalist, etc.-bolster the dream with enticing ads: "No More Rejection Slips," or "Enjoy Fame and Fortune as a Writer." Reality v. Dream. Actually, the reality is much less enticing than the dream. Of the thousands who have tried free-lancing magazine articles, only about 70 or 80 in the U.S. earn upwards...
Before he slowed down, Taylor wrote 35 or 40 a year, was once dubbed by Satevepost Editor Ben Hibbs "a writing factory." Taylor's factory is a worker's dream...
...quiet nightmare haunting museum directors is the fear that they may wind up with a fake masterpiece on their hands. Last week Sir Philip Hendy, director of London's august National Gallery, woke up to find that for him the dream had come true. A London art dealer had proved that the National Gallery's Virgin with Angel and Child by the 15th century Italian, Francesco Francia, was a fake...