Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orpheus (Paulvé; Discina), Avant-Gardist Jean Cocteau's latest plunge through the lookingglass, carries him into an enigmatic dream world that blends myth, realistic thriller and fantasy. Laureled in Venice, praised and damned in Paris and London, it is a film to frustrate any moviegoer who demands a logical explanation of what he is looking at. For those willing to drift with Cocteau's reverie, catching what wisps of meaning they can, the movie is an interesting experience...
...allegory, he says, but simply an attempt to touch entertainingly in film metaphor on a scrambled collection of such themes as free will, inspiration and the poet's preoccupation with death. What the movie does with these themes is as elusive and disjointed as a half-remembered dream...
Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, likes to dream big. A year ago, he thought the U.S. would soon have a gross national product of $300 billion. With that goal already in sight (TIME, Dec. 4), Keyserling last week started dreaming again. Said he: under the stimulus of war spending, the gross national product should rise to $500 billion...
When they were unraveling the old myths and weaving their own, the men to whom all cats and causes are grey worked out a version of the American Civil War. Regional economic rivalry, they said, had been heated up by New England abolitionists and dream-wrapped Southern devotees of Sir Walter Scott; the unnecessary struggle that resulted eventually ended, as it had to do, with victory for the side with the most iron foundries; it was rather a pity that the names of two such broad-minded individuals as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee ever got mixed...
...Ever since In His Steps appeared," writes Glenn (How to Find Health Through Prayer) Clark, "I have dreamed of writing a sequel to it." What Would Jesus Do? is Author Clark's dream come true-a dedicated, step-by-step retracing of Author Sheldon's bestseller in terms of the post-World War II U.S. Like its predecessor, it is a composite sermon preached by its cast of characters, many of whom are the children or grandchildren of the characters in In His Steps. Urged by their minister (grandson of Author Sheldon's minister) to emulate Christ...