Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clutters low-slung cars, and it distributes the engine's weight in a desirable way. Unlike straight gas turbines, free piston engines have quick response. The man whose self-confidence is supported by making jackrabbit starts when the traffic light turns green will not suffer deflation if his dream-car of the future has free pistons...
...shared the same birthday), and Tessai, in his painting Latter Red Cliff Ode, illustrated the poet's description of a night's boating on the Yangtze River near Huang-chou, culminating in the dramatic moment when the poet saw two cranes fly by (later revealed in a dream to have been two Taoist immortals). The painting is now in the ceremonial process of being declared one of Japan's national treasures...
...postman delivers the spring catalogue of Jackson & Perkins Co., the world's biggest rose growers. This spring the J. & P. catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong and vigorous as the Spartans...
...daylight, and indeed the whole phrase serves no apparent purpose in the story. I cannot resist the conclusion that Kozol is playing games with himself. And yet, discovering that the story was enthusiastically received by Professor MacLeish's writing course, I am also tempted to conclude that the whole dream is but a reflected vision of an English Sa meeting...
...longer German." said Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque twelve years ago. "Even when I dream, it is about America." Remarque, now a U.S. citizen, may have American dreams, but his memories are still German. After several books on the Nazi-World War II era, he has now returned to the scene of his earlier. post-Versailles trips among the ruins (The Road Back, Three Comrades). The quality of the new book and of its time is simply -almost too simply-defined by its central situation: the hero works for a tombstone firm, and the girl...