Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to return to the romantics, however, to realize that the same situation is as true here. At this point, the problem becomes plain. There is a cerebral process of craftsmanship going on and an emotional dream world. But the two never really merge. There is absolutely no emotional equilibrium, no spiritual harmony. All the controls are academically understood, but almost never felt. All the emotion, hopelessly sweet or uncompromisingly grim, is deeply felt, but utterly without proportion...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...
...their well-kept fingernails. For neither the first nor the last time in the history of Nevada, the only state in the U.S. where gambling is legal in nearly all its forms (prohibited: dog racing, jai alai), an organized band had figured out a way to fulfill the fondest dream of hundreds of thousands of lemon-loathing laymen: hitting the jackpot on the slot machine, otherwise known as the one-armed bandit...
...Dream & Reality. In Algiers, newspapers of the diehard European settlers violently expressed their "distrust" of the man their riots had helped bring to power. Disheartening as De Gaulle's long view might seem to many of his countrymen, nothing else seemed to promise quicker relief. Last week Morocco's King Mohammed V, increasingly weary of the effect of the Algerian war on his own country, was angling for a visit with De Gaulle (who said fine), reportedly hoped to convince De Gaulle that autonomy within the French Community would be the best solution for Algeria...
...actually cost $4 more than the Big Three's cheapest car (it is now $311 cheaper), and that takes an expert driver to get the company-boasted gas mileage (more than 30 miles to the gallon). Snorts a General Motors executive: "Romney's been selling a dream-price and economy-but he's done a helluva good...