Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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English critic Kenneth S. Lynn '47 writes with such a fluid style, it does not seem surprising that he accumulated the unusual total of three Bowdoin Prizes while completing the manuscript for The Dream of Success. But it would seem on first glance that he has wasted his ability on a collection of early twentieth century writers who are rapidly becoming obscure. Of his five novelists, only Jack London and Theodore Dreiser have achieved any sort of place in literature, while the following of David Graham Phillips, Frank Norris, and Robert Herrick is meagre at best...
...Oilman George Strake, is trying to raise $1,900,000 more for a permanent endowment. Thus, because of the dream of two of its priests, St. Louis is now well on the way to becoming an outstanding world center for the study of Western thought. Among the filmed treasures it will have: the 4th century Codex Vaticanus, one of the oldest and most important copies of the Bible; the 6th century Codex Marchalianus, containing the complete Old Testament prophets; the original manuscript of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles...
...face a mess of bleeding flesh. But the winner had taken more of a licking than anyone realized. In two short years Ad Wolgast fought 21 times, finally lost his title to Willie Ritchie in another vicious slugfest. From then on he was lost in a punch-drunk dream of a comeback. He continued to train, and he continued to fight. He frittered away the fortune that he had won with his fists. In 1917 a Milwaukee court declared him legally incompetent. For a few years Wolgast had his freedom as a ward of Los Angeles Fight Promoter Jack Doyle...
BIGGEST CONVENTION HALL in the world, long a pet Chicago project, is now past the dream stage. After years of arguing about location and funds, the Illinois state legislature is almost certain to pass a bill creating a state authority to issue revenue bonds to build a $34 million hall, with a 60,000-seat capacity, on the site of Chicago's 1933 fair. Construction is expected to begin in about a year...
...they never made. But it is rich in atmosphere and a sense of tragedy, again proves that Author Lamming has a virtuoso's ear for catching the rhythms of island speech. Half-white, half-Negro himself, he knows better than most writers what it means to live and dream in a half-and-half world...