Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abstract painting like to warn against reading too much into such pictures. They are supposed to be seen "purely as paintings." This is like asking people not to daydream at concerts. Whether it be "pure" or merely obscure, whether "pioneering" or just playing, abstract-expressionism is something to dream and wonder over...
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...Edmund Wilson wrote in the spring of 1934, "(Washington) is more interesting than I have ever known it before, and more lively than at any time since the war. The last administration weighed on Washington, as it did on the entire country, like a darkness, like an oppressive bad dream, in which one could neither speak nor act; and the talk and animation in Washington today are a relief like waking up from a bad dream . . . the place is like a Yale-Harvard-Princeton reunion.... It is equally true that, for a graduate of the school of New York liberalism...
...their quiet, back-room study of the secrets of heredity, U.S. geneticists are developing many a technique as explosive as any nuclear physicist's dream. Last week, at somber meetings in separate cities, two geneticists brought current accomplishments and prospects into the open...
Just across the Congo River from Leopoldville sits Brazzaville (pop. 86,000), capital of French Equatorial Africa, which has been astir with De Gaulle's promise of autonomy. Kasavubu began to dream of reviving the fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of Léopoldville's commune burgomasters in 1957, he had himself declared "Supreme Leader" by his followers, and began receiving homage seated on a leopard skin, symbol of tribal supreme power. Meanwhile, the rival Bangalas also began organizing, and the bush telegraph began...