Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic leaders were openly critical after their foreign policy session. Said House Majority Leader McCormack: "It is about time the Administration got out of its dream world and into the world of reality." Said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "The Administration needs a big dose of urgency." Privately, the Republicans felt much the same way. The general consensus was that the Administration had a long way to go before its ideas were whipped together into a salable congressional program-though time is rapidly running...
...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...
...habanera from Carmen ("Greasy cup and dirty plate, I'll wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most-a divorce." Instead, though, Lothario Lahr settled for a whirl at the posh Murmuring Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice...
...year-old blonde youngster with the warm, blonde voice whose appearance as an unknown schoolgirl on Jack Paar's Tonight TV show in October developed a bolognoid scent when someone remembered that she had sung a year and a half ago with an outfit called the Dream Weavers. While Paar clutched his wounds. Trish grabbed a recording contract with Decca. She might hit the big time, with the help of a cute nickname (short for Patricia), a fine nose for publicity and a sentimental, "There's-a-tree-in-the-meadow" kind of voice. Her first record...
Desolation of the Soul. In his most ambitious story, 63: Dream Palace, he tells of two young hillbillies from West Virginia who come to bad ends in Chicago, and of their only mourners, a writer improbably named Parkhearst Cratty and a wealthy matron most commonly called "greatwoman." Again the theme is one that could be comic-the adventures of a yokel in a big city. Again, the working out is pure terror, with murder of the body and desolation of the soul at the end. Author Purdy dislikes to be considered morbid and argues that "despair in art shows concern...