Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While ruminations on what he would do with 300 million dollars are the occasional day-dream of the average University official, such thoughts are the perpetual nightmare of Paul C. Cabot...
...needle approached. This was no mere hospitality, this was sheer brutality. An explanation was in order and was given-as was my blood, and as was some delicious orange juice and coffee. The whole experience was delightful but highly confusing. Even now it all seems like a vivid dream...
...allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says one of Tynan's friends, he will continue to write "what other people may be thinking but wouldn't dream of saying out loud...
What is better in the Advocate does not balance what is worse. A dream-like story with a nightmare ending, Nowhere Special, takes first place by default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...
...notes that a restaurant menu offers a dreaded veal cutlet. He suggests that hic jacet is a sport coat from the corn belt and that ad nauseam is a sickening advertisement. He even tells a dream girl on an ocean liner: "If you care to take a turn on deck, you'll find me forward. Possibly even a bit unscrupulous...