Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well-Plotted Dream. At his second trial (the first conviction was set aside by the Supreme Court), Salazar's prosecutors were models of tolerance and gallantry. They addressed the prisoner deferentially as "Your Excellency," and allowed his partisans to harangue the court with a revolutionary tirade well peppered with liberal quotes from Victor Hugo ("When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right...
...superiority complex toward other Asians." As for India, it is unhappy ovep the way Japan is selling cheap copies of Madras cottons and squeezing India out of the textile market in East Africa and Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature was 103°, but his reception, if proper, was decidedly cool...
...Sculptor Naum Gabo, a near neigh bor of Breuer's in Connecticut, the Bijenkorf commission was the dream of a lifetime. A constructivist (along with his brother, Antoine Pevsner) since the movement's pioneer days in Russia, Gabo still bases his work on the esthetics of mathematics, modern material, and machine motifs. His present work, which took more than a year to construct in steel and aluminum bronze, is as abstract as he has ever done. "I'm not a naturalist," he explains, "who works from a face, a landscape or an event. I have only...
...planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth...
...some of the poetry is a bit soggy, almost all of the prose--narrative and expository--is delightful. Juan Alonso presents the story of a dream and Peter Heliczer continues to live one. Both concern themselves with sex in perfection and both wind up in slight and lively disappointment. Heliczer's "White Strawberries" is one of the best things that he has yet published...