Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turks' enthusiasm for the Germans and Krupp's enthusiasm for his reception ("like a dream") was tonic to the Menderes administration. Just before leaving for Karachi, Menderes said that he would increase by 33.5% the price the government pays farmers for wheat. Orthodox economists and U.S. advisers were horrified; almost everyone else concluded that the rise was a sign that Menderes intends to call for general elections this fall and is making sure of the farm vote...
...Lonely Man (Paramount) attempts to show that the Stanislavsky Method of acting is right at home on the range. The hero (Jack Palance), like so many disciples of The Method, is 1,000% sincere; he would not dream of speaking a line until he had lived it right down to the last rivet in his denims. The results are sometimes disconcerting...
Elgar might have remained an obscure provincial composer if he had not been encouraged by his wife, a general's daughter. At 43 he won fame at last with his thunderous oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. As Edwardian England wandered toward World War I, his reputation rose on a great wave of public nostalgia...
...there was another, less roast-beefy side to Elgar ("I must go out and buy some strychnine," he said in a moment of self-criticism), and from that side came his best music-The Dream of Gerontius, Enigma Variations, the Falstaff symphonic poem, his two symphonies. Such pieces have few of Elgar's faults and most of his virtues: the imaginative orchestration, the mystical harmonies, the broad, marching orchestral drive, and the peaceful lyrical passages, which rise and fall as gently as the rolling English countryside Elgar used to roam for inspiration...
...sort of private welfare statism, as when the critical caddie shortage is solved by establishing the Caddies' Revolving Incentive Fund. And the rapacious golf pro, who year after year keeps promising his customers that their game will improve, is in a sense the guardian of the American dream. At Happy Knoll, a bit of snobbism is not only the opium of the Mrs. but the Miltown of both sexes ("How many Cadillacs are there at Hard Hollow? Two. How many at Happy Knoll? Eight on a summer's weekday and often twenty of a Saturday...