Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saper's psychological piece treats the strange behavior of a young man at his brother's piano concert. Even allowing for the mental aberrations exhausted in this type of story, "The Hammerklavier" is incomplete. Ralph, Waddy, and the mother emerge only as unreal people in a jumbled and embarrassing dream...
Suddenly Frut realizes that the trouble with Utopia is that it is boring. To stir up the Blue Capers, he tells them about the Thing and its tracings on the sand. "Perhaps it was a dream," the educators scoff, pointing out that sensible Blue Capers accept only "two hypotheses, the termite and the erosion theories." The Cave and the Rock ends with Frut thoroughly disillusioned with lizardly rationalism...
...Second Reformation. By then, Mary and Bernarr were beginning to drift apart. It was all very well for him to dream, as he slept on the floor encased in "The Macfadden Body-Free Blanket Rib," of becoming the "first Physical Culture President of the United States," but Mary blanched at the thought of becoming known as the "Constantly Pregnant First Lady." She had borne him four daughters under the "no-doctors" rules of Macfadden birthmanship, and now he felt that four sons (conceived by following the Macfadden rules of sex determination) would nicely round off "The Perfect Family." Mary obliged...
...Frank Small, a New Zealand housewife, flubs around the fairways (handicap: 17) like any other golfer, but off the tees she is phenomenal. Last January, she was naturally elated when she scored the golfer's dream: a hole in one. Then, in ten weeks of play, she scored three more. Last week Mrs. Small was the sensation of the Antipodes. Playing on her home course at Invercargill, where there are four short holes (190, 135, 120 and 114 yds.), Mrs. Small sank Hole-in-One No. 5. Two days later, playing before a buzzing, unbelieving gallery, she smacked another...
...these courses will be "The American Dream and American Individualism," offered by the English department. Students will study those ideas through the novels of Hawthorne, Molville, Henry James, and William Faulkner, and will attempt to relate them through critical reading and discussion...