Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft and radar development, is ahead in ballistic missiles. Said Teller: "I would not say that the Russians caught up with us because they stole our secrets. They caught up with us because they worked harder. A Russian boy thinks about becoming a scientist like our young girls dream about becoming a movie star...
...Mantle is a Yankee, and the Yankees are the "power elite" of the baseball world. They are the biggest; they have more money, better organization and more pennants. The Yankees win and the American dream of success influences even sports writers. A Yankee has won the Most Valuable Player Award each of the last four years and twelve times since...
...heroes of this naval epic of World War II are the officers and men of a P.R.O. outfit stationed on a Pacific island called Tulura. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to dream of the bounding main as they stare at the waves in the water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut. Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), a sort of sugar-coated Queeg. This pill is secretly known, to those who have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead...
...Esfher Sola-man (344 pp.; Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), deals with Russian Jews, more urbane, polished and aware than Singer's woebegone Galizianer. Little Rissia grows up in Vladimirsk, a fictional town near Kiev, in the early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...
...success of Kind Hearts and Coronets, was to be killingly funny, but this time the whimsy is too flimsy. The rich uncle of the title (Charles Coburn) pays a visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder the old boy. But every time the nephew baits a trap, who gets caught? The paying customer...