Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most astutely symbolical novel of igth century England was Dickens' Great Expectations. Young Pip. packing his bags for London to become a gentleman, fulfilled the dream image of a confident and ambitious middle class. Since 1954, an equally symbolic novel has come to stand for the small expectations and raddled nerves of null century Britain - and especially its middle-class intellectuals-under the Welfare State. The novel: Kingsley Amis' Lucky...
...Construction of a $65 million cantilever bridge across the Mississippi to New Orleans' undeveloped West Bank, fulfilling a century-old New Orleans dream of bridging the river...
...Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with the same taunt; a blazing outdoor scene at Aries; the erotic Maya dream sequence; Madame Louise's brothel, where the psychotic Van Gogh cuts off his ear; and finally the shadowy deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like...
...Poland: "You dreamt that this would be your dawn of heroism, and, I tell you, it is indeed your dawn of heroism. You are not heroes on the newsstands for having caused incalculable bloodshed, but heroes in truth because you have, in modest obscurity, renounced a hero's dream, clothed in the attractive gay mantle of glory. You are heroes in truth, and despite all distortions, hypocrisies, illusions and falsehood, truth is still true in this winter...
...Concerning your April 22 article on the naming of Ford Motor Co.'s new dream car, no mention was made of its specifications or design. However, if Ford is holding true to Detroit's trend of recent years, no one need have a "quiverful of literary prizes" to realize that a more fitting name for Edsel would be "S.S. United States...