Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sound of Cicadas. In one of the most moral gestures in the annals of humankind, the U.S. had sent its sons to die in Korea without hope of conquest or dream of reward. But the war hung fire, neither won nor lost, and the aggressor remained unrepentant, ready to strike again. For the U.S., public morality abroad seemed to be easier than at home. It had been a summer of suspicion and scandal. The charges of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy shrilled as insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national...
...Nelli, whose pre-Toscanini training with the Salmaggi and San Carlo opera companies gained her much experience but little fame, success in San Francisco meant a step closer to her dream of the Met, plus new confidence. Said she: "Lily Pons came back to my room and congratulated me. When one coloratura says something nice to another, you can be sure they mean...
...Africa fan from boyhood, Artist Adrian painted many an imaginary African scene before he ever laid eyes on the continent. In 1949 he and his wife took a motor trip through the Sudan, Kenya and the Belgian Congo, "to see if my African dream were true." Bumping over 4,000 miles of trails, he decided that he had been right in the main. But he picked up a lot of new ideas. At home, working from notes and memory, he turned out the current show's canvases in a year and a half...
...Will Be Said . . ." In the end, he won only a partial victory. The Spaniards were gone, but Venezuela remained riven by petty local interests and provincial narrowness. Bolivar's dream of a Latin-American federation came to nothing...
Shaw, Miss Webster, and her accomplished company all stumble lamentably in the last act, an epilogue in which Shaw invokes souls of the dead and the alive into a dream sequence, the object of which is to show the audience that the world is still not ready for saints, no matter how much it admires the dead ones. It is as impossible theatrically as the infamous Don Juan in Hell Scene and considering the perfect ways in which the first scene of Act III ends, I can't help regretting that Miss Webster didn't show more restraint than...