Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the atom-powered dream plane was one step closer to reality; the Air Force announced that it had contracted with Consolidated Vultee for an airframe to carry a nuclear-reaction engine. The engine itself is already under development by General Electric...
Hope & Purpose. Generations of gentile children, begins Ussher briskly, have made their first acquaintances with the Jews through the Old Testament-"the greatest of books for children." Noah and the Ark is a "fulfillment of every child's dream-a 'zoo' which is in the home and a home which is on the move." But the story of the Flood also contains a deep lesson in the outlook of the Jews: God's effort to make a new start with the human race was instantly understandable to them, for in Jewish eyes "despair . . . is the supreme...
...some years now, various pressure groups within the University have been pushing for a Cambridge hockey rink for the Harvard's sextet's home contests. But indoor ice palaces are notoriously expensive. The home rink dream remains in a state of limbo, and the Crimson skaters continue to operate out of the Boston Arena...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...intrudes; the factory girl is pregnant and demanding that he marry her. Between desperate maneuvers to put her off, George basks in the brightening promise of the right marriage and a front-office career. By the time events force him to a decision, he is too deep in the dream to face the reality; he chooses the simple way of murder...