Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fidgety William Preston Few had a. sort of double vision. No dream was big enough for him, and no detail was too small ("I notice that there are lights that burn continuously in the library. Please find out where this fault is and have it remedied at once"). In 1921, thinking he was about to die of pneumonia, he wrote out a complete plan for turning Trinity into a full-fledged university, and just before lapsing into a coma, told his wife: "Put this in an envelope...and see that it gets to J. B. Duke." When he recovered...
Most of the University's foreign students probably dream at times of an eventual career in politics or government service. But Ph.D. candidate Eze Anyanwu Oguen II of Obibi-Ezena, Nigeria, has already realized that ambition in spectacular fashion--at 24 he is a Nigerian tribal chieftain, the hereditary ruler of thousands of Africans...
...Waldorf-Astoria last week to inspect General Motors' annual road show, the Motorama for 1955. On display were more than 100 exhibits, and, as usual, the stars were G.M.'s cars of the future. But this time there was a difference. In past years the dream cars were almost all flashy sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta, a four-passenger hardtop. Flashiest of the fleet was the LaSalle II sports roadster...
...until close to the end (at the age of 54, in 1903), Gauguin believed that he would soon be rich, that he and his wife and children would be reunited, and that he would again be the slippered Papa at the family hearth. The Walter Mittys of this world dream of becoming Paul Gauguins; they will be astonished to hear how the Gauguins dream of becoming Walter Mittys...
Died. Yves Tanguy, 55, French-born pioneer surrealist painter of impeccably drawn dream landscapes (Mama, Papa Is Wounded!; Slowly Toward the North; Indefinite Divisibility); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Waterbury, Conn. One of the group of young painters who formed the original surrealist school in Paris in the 1920s, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, became renowned for his stark pictures of rubble-strewn deserts and towering geometrical forms...