Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations . . . reduces to two pages what we try to say in somewhat greater detail in several months of our courses in personnel management . . . We find some students . . . who feel (usually on the basis of their limited and somewhat unhappy experience) that all this talk is merely an academic pipe dream with little practical application in industry...
When the artist saw the reproduction of a sketch for Diego Rivera's new mural. The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace (TIME, March 17), he was angered by the symbolism that glorified Russia and derided the U.S. Translating his wrath into action, he picked up brush and palette, set to work on the painting shown here...
Finally, like a man departing suddenly into a dream, Traven forgets all about his principal characters, including even the invaluable piglets, and turns his novel into a featureless mass drama which he can neither inspire nor bring to a conclusion. His Rebellion winds up as third-rate Uncle Tom's Cabin, with the debilitating difference that the slavery Traven writes about with John Brown heat has already been abolished...
...great deal of its success can be attributed to the actual facts of the case. Operation Cicerco is a script-writer's dream, loaded with enough surprises and ironic twists (including the fact that the Germans refused to believe that the documents were genuine) to fill half-a-dozen run-of-the-mill espionage thrillers. In addition, Mankiewicz's screenplay contains some effective frills of its own: a love affair between the valet and a former employer, a beautiful Polish countess, some bright epigrammatic dialogue, and an array of skillfully drawn diplomatic officials. Particularly clever use is made...
...Dream-Blind. The sympathy of his fellow countrymen has not softened Blaster Lewis much. His newest book, Rotting Hill, is a volume of nine short stories-in which most of the stories are not stories at all. They are the polemics of an enraged preacher who is neither Labor nor Tory, Christian nor pagan, democrat nor aristocrat. Their aim is to tell