Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baptiste, a bright-colored dream tale of a Pierrot in love with a statue, showed that Actor-Director-Choreographer Barrault knows how to use his body quite as well as his head. A pantomime that just falls short of being a ballet, Baptiste has a gay, floating, slightly intermittent charm, with more unusual comic effects than choreographic ones. For real substance from the troupe, Broadway had still to wait: their first bill was rather a triumphant avoidance of it, an exercise in sheer airiness and grace...
Finally, with Eighth Army consent, the ROKs gave up trying to win Triangle. The little infantrymen crouched in their bunkers, like dazed men coming out of a bad dream, and the battle was handed over to artillery. Back of the two battered hills, the Communists were believed to have an artillery division in addition to the regular unit artillery-some 200 guns in all. At week's end, the U.N. reported silencing half the enemy guns. The Red artillery fire had slacked off sharply-but that may have been partly due to lack of targets and dwindling ammunition...
...mouth existence. Mrs. Bloom was ill and, because of British monetary regulations, could get little financial help from England. Claire spent her time singing "terribly sad songs," copying out poems from memory (one of her favorites: Poe's ". . . All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream . . ."), or curled up reading her red-leather volume of Shakespeare. She also went to school, but did badly in such practical subjects as arithmetic. In 1943, Claire and her mother returned to London. Says Claire: "We preferred the blitz...
...pressagent's overblown dream came true when Ventriloquist's Dummy Charlie McCarthy, whose sawdust quivers at sight of the pretty guest stars on his radio program, proposed marriage to Marilyn Monroe, who said...
...joins a regiment named the Halberdiers, to be trained as an officer. To him, as to Waugh (who was himself a captain in the Royal Horse Guards), the Halberdiers are a dream come true. They embody all the sentiments of which Guy was starved in the prewar world. Tradition, esprit de corps, ritual and courtesy are combined with high efficiency and discipline. The Halberdiers still loyally toast their Colonel-in-Chief, the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia, who lives "in a bed-sitting-room at Nice.'' They take "peculiar pride" in accepting whatever recruits are sent to them...