Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other citizens began contributing five-and ten-dollar bills for a memorial to Helen Momita at the Los Angeles Buddhist temple. When he was consulted about it, Harry asked that the money be used instead to help fulfill a long-standing dream of Calipatrians : to build a 184-ft. flagpole so that the American flag could fly at sea level above "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere...
...Down Payment suggests some shocking answers. In this picture the dream houses of a short-drive-from-the-city development known as Sunrise Hills turn out to be nothing better than air-conditioned nightmares. The point is illustrated in the lives of eight inhabitants of this magnificently planned slum-four young couples "thrown together," as the book's blurb explains, "in the devastating intimacy of a four-house courtyard...
...mouthful of decay," Osborne denounced "Queen worship" as "the national swill" and no fit occupation for Socialists. "I don't believe," he wrote, "that there can be one intellectual in the Labour Party who doesn't find it hilarious or contemptible. Naturally they would never dream of losing all those votes by saying...
...spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former Jet and the sister of a Shark-dream of a happy, peaceful Unpromised Land. Seeking the brightest possible contrast, the ballet has very little of Robbins and too much sweetness and lighting...
...Among other events at Gibeon mentioned in the Bible: the siege by Amorite kings which was lifted by Joshua as the sun stood still and stones rained down on the fleeing besiegers (Joshua 10); the slaughter of Amasa by Joab (II Samuel 20); Solomon's dream of wisdom (I Kings...