Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead of a mere Utopian dream...
...self-of their own fears, guilts, aggressions. Even among themselves there is dissension: the play has hardly begun before hot-tempered Private David King is at cynical Private Peter Abie's throat. Then the men settle down for the night, and each in succession has a Biblical dream that reveals his secret self and his ideas of his comrades...
Meadows, submissive, uninvolved and the oldest of the four prisoners, dreams of Cain and Abel-the general human spectacle of brother murdering brother. But violent David King in his dream is King David clashing with Absalom; and scoffing, self-pitying Peter Able is Isaac being led to slaughter. Finally Corporal Adams, the responsible man seeking light and truth, sees David, Peter and himself as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, all cast into the fiery furnace, all sharing-and surviving-a fearful ordeal...
...nightmares, ballerinas sometimes dream of falling flat. In Detroit's Masonic Auditorium last week, the bad dream came true for the whole Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...Midsummer Night's Dream is still at the Brattle. Good light stuff...