Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back rooms and over green baize tables in a 16th-century Roman villa, EDC's two most fervent champions teamed up to save the dream of a six-nation internationalized army. Switching dexterously from Italian to French to old-fashioned but serviceable German, Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi worked on French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and other ministers behind the scenes...
...Gnostic societies and their leaders will recognize dangers to their existence when they develop, but such dangers will not be met by appropriate actions in the world of reality. They will rather be met by magic operations in the dream world, such as disapproval, moral condemnation, declarations of intention, resolutions, appeals to the opinion of mankind, branding of enemies as aggressors, outlawing of war, propaganda for world peace and world government...
...substitution of "magic operations in the dream world" for a politics of reality brought on World War II, which Winston Churchill, its great warrior, called "The Unnecessary War." Voegelin describes the process...
...characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through a saloon sequence in which he is fed a Mickey Finn, a dream sequence in which he imagines he is a lionhearted medieval knight...
...Corporation democracy is no longer an idealistic dream. It is fast becoming a reality and ten years hence we will be as far from where we now stand as we now are from where we stood in 1932." Gilbert credited the Securities and Exchange Commission and Louis Loss, professor of Law, who served for many years as Associate General Counsel to the Commission, with hastening this democratic development...