Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fencing off his five acres than he spent fishing and hunting. A strong antipathy grew up between the Hords and the natives. At the end of last summer, before he went back to his home in Rockport, Texas, Captain Hord worked out an elaborate plan to secure his dream house against trespassers. Inside the pantry he set up a loaded .22-cal. pistol. Only the tip of the barrel protruded from the paneling, pointed at the level of a man's heart toward the pantry door. From the hidden trigger, the captain connected a piece of cord...
...impossibly ideal demands on life), which leads to Frustration (when Idealization's demands are not met), which in turn leads to Demoralization, Tin Pan Alley, says Hayakawa, breeds IFD germs as Jersey swamps breed mosquitoes. "First, there is an enormous amount of idealization, the creation of a wishful dream girl or dream boy, the fleshly counterpart of which never existed on earth...
...Love is depicted in most white popular songs as ... magic. There is never an indication . . . that, having found the dream girl or dream man, one's problems are just beginning. Rather . . . having found one's ideal, all problems are forever solved...
...what is the final step?" Says he: "When the world of reality becomes unmanageable, a common practice is to retreat into a symbolic dream world . . . The psychiatric profession classifies this retreat as schizophrenia...
Racing to the rescue and rendered careless by the fate that had overtaken their friend, his two comrades ran straight into the arms of the law. In the monkey house at Auckland, freedom was once again only a dream and a memory...