Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father's Dream. The Krupp dynasty was started by a young Essen merchant named Friedrich Krupp, who switched to making steel when Napoleon's blockade of England cut the Continent off from supplies of high-quality British steel. Friedrich died a failure at 40, leaving his 14-year-old son Alfred the company name, a rundown factory and an obsessive devotion to steel. Though his relatives called him "stupid" for following his father's dream, Alfred started at 15 to learn to produce high-quality steel. He went to England under an assumed name to study British...
Midsummer Night's Dream...
...stands black and bare, properties have been minimized, and the scenes presented involve a minimum of physical action. The resulting emphasis on sheer ability to read poetry well suits the group's talents. But even in the final bit, the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream, entailing a certain amount of slapstick, the players do a fine...
...Dust & Fireflies. Dick Russell's roots lie deeply and inextricably in the long-lost dream of the Old South. He was born in Winder (rhymes with binder), 46 miles northeast of Atlanta, the son of a struggling county courthouse lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink...
...Second Shot. As a student, she had been half-carried away by the dream of a free, liberal Russia, and much impressed with the political ideas of a Jewish fellow student, now a Red officer. Sophie's new and growing love for Erick is rejected and she crosses class, family and historical lines to go over to the Reds. Presently, Conrad is killed; his sister is captured and sentenced to death as a turncoat. In a scene of cutting irony the White soldier, who usually performs the executions with his pistol, comes to Erick and reports: "She orders . . . that...