Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago, TIME made a special subscription offer to servicemen, writing them about the fabulous exploits of a mythical Captain "Hot Shot" Callahan. Captain Callahan, it seemed had everything it took to make small boys dream about their own conquest of the wild blue yonder...
...evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open eyes. Between Spanish stoicism and New England puritanism there was obviously a grim link, but behind Santayana's philosophy lies another traditional Spanish theme: that life is a dream...
Margaret Halsey was 28 when her best-selling assault on the British way of life, With Malice Toward Some (TIME, Aug. 28, 1938), swept her into realization of "the American Dream-the sudden, juicy, delicious, enthralling, entrancing, exhilarating acquisition of money." "Between Sunday night and Monday morning" she became a well-to-do celebrity, all set to hurl herself into the "national pastime" of "having things nice." "I had people in to dinner, and I had a maid to cook the dinner ... I got a divorce, which is standard. I went to a psychoanalyst-which is standard...
...four-year-old daughter. She is, by her own description, a middle-class mamma who "wears cotton shirts and blue jeans to everything but weddings, christenings and funerals." She turns a deaf ear to the clang of falling shekels. Being well-to-do has convinced her that The Dream is pure nightmare...
...Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter. The late editor of the unpublished Mark Twain Papers shows how much Clemens' youth contributed to the golden dream of boyhood in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TIME, Sept...