Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gifted Lunts offered not their usual sparkling comedy but a dour drama about man's injustice to man, by fast-rising Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt. The Visit, says TIME'S review, is "as incredible and surrealist, yet as bluntly precise and compelling, as a dream." See THEATER...
Rich planned it that way all along. He has enjoyed his 31 years on the Art Institute's staff, 13 as director, but he has a better job-which pays less. His new post: director of the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, the little dream museum that in 1954 won the late Francis Henry Taylor away from his job as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
Love Under Canvas. Kokoschka, for his part, recalls Adele as a girl who danced like a dream-gay, relaxed, with beautiful legs. (But he was convinced that her eyes turned inwards and her dog's eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent...
...Joel Brand, now 52, was a leader of a Jewish underground group in Hungary whose purpose was quite simply to help Jews to stay alive. There were other such groups; Brand's was called the Waada Ezra we Hazalah, a Zionist group to whom the age-old dream of return to Palestine had been converted by the Hitler terror into life-or-death urgency...
...Churchill once wrote: "If Mr. Wilson had been either simply an idealist or a caucus politician, he might have succeeded. His attempt to run the two in double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old French tiger whose claws helped to shred the Wilsonian dream, snarled: "He acted to the very best of his abilities in circumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior developments lay beyond...