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...
...play is not fitting as Thomas' last work, for he has banished gloomy presentiments and shot through each line with vigor of life. His subject is one day in a small Welsh town and the life of its people. It is not an important day: the people dream--of the past, and of lovers, and of the dead. They work while the postman brings news of the day and of each other. They eat, and some pray, and some debauch; then they sleep. It is the daily cycle which Thomas found always fresh and with meaning. Without pretense or confusion...
...pine-pancled dining rooms and libraries of the Houses attest that Lowell's goal has been partially reached, but effective use of tutors for "dinner-table education" remains a dream...
...London Airport one morning last week, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles alighted from it. Like a stone in a pool, his arrival sent ripples of alarm coursing through Britain and France. Warmed by the spring sun, many British and French had somehow fallen into a hazy, hopeful dream that everything could be settled at Geneva if only nothing was done to alarm the shy Communists. To them, Dulles, with his call for "united action" before Geneva and a joint warning to Communist China, came as an insistent intruder. The jittery press talked of "ultimatum," conjured visions...
...Hobbyist Applesmith dreams of an all white Africa in which everything will "go like clockwork." He has lived in this dream for so long that he has begun to anticipate it by creating clockwork forms of living things. Applesmith's mechanical fox terrier bitch can be made to beg for tidbits. And, says Applesmith, "nothing in its expression reproaches you for denying it ... The owner of my bitch need never feel guilty...