Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pushbutton War. Talk of "revolutionary new weapons" sound uneasily like the old pushbutton warfare pipe dream once charged to the Air Force. It also was likely to give rise to some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient...
...Dream. The Republican 80th Congress sensed the obvious consequences of such ruinous economic nonsense. It passed the Hope-Aiken law of 1948, a step in the right direction. Money would have kept pouring out to the farmers in support prices ranging from a rigid 90% of parity on some products to as low as 60% on others. But Hope-Aiken never got into operation. Along came November 1948, and, with it, the Democratic Party's Big Dream. Although the Democrats had tacitly endorsed the 80th's switch to flexible price supports, the party turned...
...handed out transfers to all hands. He wheeled his bus around. Then, in a state of exultant triumph such as all Manhattan drivers dream of, he headed back up Madison Avenue-unhurried and alone...
...challenge that takes him out of his narrow parochial routine comes in a dream: he feels urged to visit a carnival performer known as "The Great Diamond," whose name he has seen on a poster. He finds a ratty little man living with a dissolute young girl. The girl asks Father Cawder to find a place in a convent for her illegitimate child; when he upbraids her, she flounces...
...their spare time, Luc's fellow teenagers introduce him to a dream world in which the models are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. (Fourteen-year-old Josette practices screaming into the wind until her voice approximates the right cracked huskiness; Luc tries to imitate Gunman Bogart.) Off & on, Luc sits in on an interminable argument between Black-Marketeer Vanderputte and a friend on the police force who comes to visit him every week. Vanderputte stands up for the dignity of man and humanitarian optimism; the police official, Kuhl, stands up for Communism and the need for iron discipline. Vanderputte...