Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry to Disk Jockey Lee ("Three-D Lee-D") Dorris, who last week was hired to plug the candidacy of Cayce L. Pentecost for Public Utilities Commissioner of Tennessee. A sample of Dorris' exposition of Pentecost's merits: "Greetings, all you hep cats, gators, lame janes and dream queens. This is Lee D speelin' at you about a real gone cat from Goneville, Cayce L. Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost is my man's name; by square-dealing he won his fame. Do this...
...crown colony of Hong Kong overnight became the biggest news center in the Far East. To British colonial officials, the influx of newsmen was a nuisance. They gave out as little information as possible about any untoward "incidents." Hong Kong, they felt, was a conspicuous testing ground for the dream of peaceful coexistence, and the fewer inflammatory news stories that got out the better...
...This is not a good dream life to offer adolescent lads . . . The hero is what they would like to be. Outwardly he is everything they are not: tall, broad-shouldered, very strong, very brave, attractive to the girls . . . Nothing new here: boys and youths have been identifying themselves with the Hero for thousands of years . . . But we might see to it that the Hero is not so often kicking people in the stomach and then smashing their faces into red pulp . . . It will be as well if the citizens of tomorrow do not take it for granted that people they...
POWER NETWORK to serve Western Europe from plants in the Austrian Alps is moving from dream to planning stage. Representatives from Austria, West Germany, France and Italy are now meeting in Switzerland to work out details for hydroelectric plants, with an annual 4.7 billion kw.-h. output, to cost $570 million over a 20-year period...
Polish, not Potholes. The Go-Between, a moviemaker's dream, has also been hailed by British critics as one of the best novels to come out of postwar England. Certainly it is one of the most significant, and worth study by anyone who wants to know where English fiction is heading nowadays. No other novel of recent years is a better example of English writing at its contemporary peak of stylized, aristocratic poise-never a flubbed phrase, never a pothole in the smooth course. Author Leslie Poles Hartley, a Harrow-and-Oxford man with six finely finished novels behind...