Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream Come True...
Hollywood's major error may well lie in the effort to make the transfer at all. On the stage, Menagerie's human, uneventful little story was spun out like a dream in short, fragmentary scenes. Williams himself noted that it was "a memory play . . . dimly lighted . . . not realistic," and Broadway's highly stylized production caught the mood with music, transparent curtains, and shifting light and color...
...implied compliment is one that even the most ardent Tory, in real life, would consider too good to be true. But Parade's End, like many a fine work of fiction, is not intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle up. But those who make the grade will find-after a respite...
...beat Tom Dewey, but the New York City bosses would have none of him. Junior was finally persuaded that it would be best to quit. With a broad but mechanical grin, ambitious Congressman Roosevelt announced that he was all for good old Walt Lynch, and put away his gubernatorial dream until the 1954 convention...
Many an English middle-class family, caught in the business end of the economic nutcracker, has been dreaming of a freer, easier life in South Africa. Novelist Lessing, who was reared there, has bad news about their dreamland. Her story describes the spiritual defeat of a misfit couple in their war with the harsh realities of the veld. Few writers have succeeded so well in getting its thorny unkindness and its head-splitting heat down on paper, and few have written more devastatingly about the dream of living an easy European life against the harsh African grain...