Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transatlantic Temptation. The plan is a variation of an old Democratic dream. For months, various Democrats have been whispering in Ike's ear that he could have the Democratic nomination for the asking, and save himself a battle with Taft in the convention. One of the influential voices belonged to General George Catlett Marshall, Ike's old boss. In 1948 Marshall discouraged Ike from running, but now-although he is not a strong party Democrat-Marshall wants Ike to head off any possibility of a Taft-administered foreign policy...
...Socialists have nationalized only a small number of industries. They are still committed to full nationalization and the abolition of monarchy, but they wouldn't dream of pressing the issues...
Death of a Salesman (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) treats the text of Arthur Miller's 1949 Broadway hit with the respect due a play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award. The unflinching tragedy of Willy Loman, whose phony dream of success leads him straight to failure, is a bravely uncommon movie to come out of Hollywood, where dreams are the stuff that success is made on. Unhappily, it is also a disappointing picture...
...soon lathered. Humiliated before his guests, Chesterfield quipped to Philip's servant: "John, why do you not fetch the strop and the razors? You see your master is going to shave himself." When Philip botched his maiden speech in the House of Commons, Chesterfield finally scrapped the dream that he would ever make a man, or even a manikin of distinction...
...could Marjorie Kurtz write a song hit? Simple, says Marjorie: "I dreamed it." One night last June, curly-headed Marjorie had her dream, woke up early the next morning to jot down some lyricj about up-in-the-sky-sky-sky, see-the-snow-fly-fly-fly. She hummed an almost profes< sionally simple melody, and her aunt, a onetime supper-club singer named Sandra Kent, wrote it out. Marjorie's father, an amateur violinist, thought the lyrics were too repetitious, but Aunt Sandra dis« agreed. She landed Marjorie's song on g CBS-TV program last...