Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salons. It was a precarious moment for federation-that old dream of the intellectual salons of Europe* which now stirs the streets of Europe. The notion of federation has seeped so deep into Western Europe's consciousness that practical men are now looking hard at it. It has become important enough to have to resist...
...panel is a chapter: the annunciation to the Virgin that she is to be the mother of Jesus, the birth in the manger, the glad tidings to the shepherds, the star-guided Magi's visit to King Herod, the presentation of Jesus at the temple, Joseph's dream-warning of Herod's murderous plan, the flight into Egypt, and Herod's massacre of the newborn innocents...
...center of attention for a play that has no center itself. There is expressive writing, deft direction, some touching minor characters. But the camera cannot quite decide between an individual photograph and a group picture, a person and a place. Sally creates a sort of Green-Hatted Dream Girl, but her gaudy make-believe never really counterpoints the hoodlum realities of Berlin. And Chris, despite resolute note-taking and soliloquizing, seems much less a camera for events than a mere confidant for Sally. William Prince makes him seem any pleasant young man rather than a talented writer...
John T. Flynn's latest book is an appropriate conclusion to the blindly partisan Congressional Investigations of our Asian policy. He whips up the theory that we "sold out" Asia China to the Reds, adds a pinch of pipe-dream, and seasons the dish with his own violent prejudices. The resulting book offers two hundred pages of emotional mincemeat...
...production-line efficiency, he turned out 78 more operettas, including The Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously), The Desert Song, Blossom Time and The New Moon. His lush, middlebrow tunes ranged from rousing ballads (StoutHearted Men) to glowing sentiment (When I Grow Too Old to Dream) to this year's jukebox favorite Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, but the standard favorites were the coyly romantic Wanting You, Lover Come Back to Me and One Kiss...