Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belin Memorial University (named for Belin's mother). The Chillicothe State Bank was only too happy to lend Belin $14,000 without security, and local merchants could not do enough to get the university off to a good start. But by last week, instead of a dream come true. Belin Memorial U. had become a nightmare...
Author Barr's hero is one Professor Henry Schneider, cynical head of the history department at a Midwestern university. Like his colleagues, he is underpaid. Like many of them, he is henpecked. Unlike most of them, he wonders what happened to the old dream that leads men like him to try to set intellectual fires in the minds of junior Philistines who have no intention of getting singed. And since Purely Academic is cast as fiction, Henry also lusts after the Georgia peach whose husband is the drearily ambitious head of the economics department...
...Warning. Snorted Rio's respected Correio da Manhã: "The title of President Kubitschek should be changed to Pharaoh of Brasilia." Cried onetime Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin: "A crime! Those factors of production wasted on the dream of a new capital will be missed...
...fond dream of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, popular adoption of a king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize...
Adapter William Nichols conceived of the TV version as fantasy-all a dream of Feste the clown-set in the rococo grandeur of an 18th century pleasure park. For scenery and costumes, Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian borrowed brilliantly from the delicate woodland scenes of Watteau and Fragonard, gave the NBC color cameras an enchanting palette of shimmering pastels. Through a dream world as mannered as a minuet glided fauns, harlequins and unicorns, dwarf attendants and monkey footmen. Olivia (Frances Hyland) wooed the disguised Viola (radiantly played by Rosemary Harris) while floating in an elegant barge. When Malvolio (Maurice Evans) puffed...