Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream Fades. The U.S. made EDC the core of its European policy. Britain supported it. Italy could hardly wait to approve it. The Benelux countries got behind...
...prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
Even in its old ruts, Hollywood showed more get-up-and-go. William Wyler's Roman Holiday and Dore Schary's Dream Wife were sure, expert comedies of a kind rarely made in the U.S. since the mid 30's George Stevens' Shane was a western evolved with loving care for the beauty of the land it was set in, and Escape from Fort Bravo took a fresh look at Hollywood's tired old Indian wars. Fred Zinne-man's From Here to Eternity did far more than the usual crude job of shoveling...
...house of Scribner got from Kenneth Grahame, secretary of the Bank of England, a manuscript entitled Mr. Toad. Publisher Charles Scribner II was doubtful of its success. Author Grahame's previous juveniles (The Golden Age, Dream Days) had been about children, whereas Mr. Toad was about animals, with nary a child from start to finish...
...beat in time to cover the wave of labor troubles and strikes that swept the country in the year following V-J day. In 1947 Glasgow went to Harvard on a Nieman fellowship to study industrial and human relations. "It was," he says, "a reporter's dream, the opportunity to study the background of some of the contemporary history I had been covering...