Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream Competitor." During the whole exhausting two-day grind that a decathlon lasts, Mathias is as cool and impersonal as a coach directing a football team, constantly checking in his mind the complicated point score, deciding when to push himself to the limit, when to hold back to conserve his energy. Even when he was a green 17-year-old at the 1948 Olympics, he steadfastly refused to take his turn at the pole vault until the bar was set at 10 feet. He saw no point in wasting his energy on heights he was sure he could clear...
...predict what he can do," says Ray Dean, Stanford's assistant track coach. "All you can be sure of is that he will win. He is absolutely the greatest athlete I ever coached. He is the dream competitor-the one in 10,000 who has the temperament to match the talent...
...endorsing Taft. When Compton was placed under oath before the state executive committee, he admitted that he had participated in the convention that endorsed Eisenhower, and he admitted that no other county conventions had been held, yet the state executive committee voted 39 to 19 to seat his 'dream' delegation...
Jean Lurçat, French tapestry artist, has a recurring dream. He is in Paris, walking across the Place de la Concorde toward the Hotel Crillon. Suddenly, the grey old Crillon is transformed before his eyes. The roof is covered with tapestries, the front groans with tapestries, the sides sag with tapestries. A cheering multitude salutes him. In a twinkling, Paris is smothered with tapestries-all by Lurçat. "Ah," grins Lurçat, "what a wonderful dream...
...Paris knows, Jean Lurçat's rosy dream might come true. Europe is in the midst of a tapestry boom, and Lurçat can take much of the credit. A onetime cubist painter, he started designing tapestries shortly before World War II. His idea was that most contemporary work, modeled on the tastes of 18th century boudoir muralists, was too fussy and too expensive. Lurçat drew up designs with a simpler look, chose a few basic colors, and hired weavers at Aubusson's famed factories to turn them out. His 1946 show...