Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream. The economies of Egypt and Syria are far from complementary. They are separated by 150 miles and Israel, their avowed common enemy. But the proposed state answers to the most emotional political idea in the Middle East-the cherished Arab dream that Arab-speaking peoples should cast off the artificial borders imposed on them by the colonial powers, and assert the essential unity of "the Arab Nation...
...shrimp on the track. A dynamic, nicely proportioned (5 ft. 4 in., 111 lbs.) young man (25), Hartack works daily wonders with his extraordinarily sensitive hands and his uncanny communication with the reflexes of a running horse. His parlay of talents has already paid him with a jockey's dream: a swank new house in Miami Springs (midway between Tropical Park and Hialeah), an air-conditioned Cadillac, a speedboat, a big farm (in West Virginia). The calculating look of his eyes, the short forehead sloping away from a long brown pompadour, the narrow, impatient face and snappy, little-boyish swagger...
...seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells crashing into Fort Sumter; thus began the Civil...
...addition to providing fine flashes of humor and plenty of surefire scenes. Librettist Menotti seems intent on making the point that as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed; waiting and hoping are the whole of life. Composer Barber, 47, had to do a good deal of waiting himself. Menotti wrote the libretto in intermittent stretches over an 18-month period ("At one point," says Barber, "he left Anatol standing in a drafty doorway in deep winter for months"). Barber himself named the leading character after scanning a What-to-call-your-baby book entitled Name This Child...
While there were some expensive ships to dream about, such as the 46-ft. Wheeler sports fisherman at $60,000, the bulk of the boats were designed for the middle-and lower-income groups, who do most of the buying. More than half the boats were for outboards, which have been souped up-and quieted down. Kiekhaefer Motor Co. showed off its Mark 78, the most powerful outboard (70 h.p.) on display (price: $960). Evinrude and Johnson exhibited the first four-cylinder V-type outboards - 50-h.p. engines priced at $750 to $850-which, they bragged, were almost free...