Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep himself quiet. He will soon return to Lake Success "because I feel I'm going crazy here, but I will marry no one else. I still love Narriman, and I know she still loves me . . ."He added: "At first I thought all this was a bad dream. I did not think such things could happen in the 20th Century. Now I know better...
...started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music...
...started on their currency reform plans, which were to pay off $25-a-month government "dividends" to all adults. In 1937 the Dominion government stepped in, ruled that a province had no right to tamper with the banking system, and the Social Credit payoff never got out of the dream stage. When Bill Aberhart died in 1943, Social Credit's House membership had dropped...
After All, the Politicians. 1900 did not exaggerate the prospect of material progress ; its dream was to be multiplied many times over. But in a measure that would have appalled even the pessimists of 1900, old savageries were to be reborn, also multiplied. 1900 expected the next 50 years to belong to the businessman, or perhaps the scientist, or the educator. After them, the New York Times might be right: the world would belong to the poets "reciting their verses of a Summer evening" beside a Dewey arch...
...idyllic landscapes with castles and waterfalls. They were peopled, reasonably enough, with whale-boned ladies, poker-faced children and prim nannies, and, less reasonably, with mild-seeming lions, tigers, seals, leopards, lemurs, alligators and bears with nose chains. Animals took the place of men in E. Box's dream world...