Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, just two days before he was scheduled to leave for the U.S., Erhard's dream castle came tumbling down. First came a peremptory message from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's vacation retreat at Lake Como: cancel the trip. Next day, back in his Bonn office again, Adenauer called Erhard in for a face-to-face wigging. "I do not want anyone going over to the U.S., saying that the Common Market is disadvantageous," said Konrad Adenauer, and particularly in the week when ministers of the six nations would gather in Italy to sign the documents...
...bubbling briskly in the House, and the aroma of a rich fiscal stew flared jaded old nostrils on both sides of the aisle. The basic ingredient was the Administration's record peacetime $71.8 billion budget, which is, in many domestic respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made an unprecedented proposal...
...publicity men who billed Wee Geordie as an uproarious comedy did it an injustice. The film is not in the bubbling broth of a wee tradition of such films as Tight Little Island. Instead, its value is in the nearly dream-like simplicity and charm of civilization in a Scottish highland glen, and in the excellent photography of bonnie lochs and braes. There are also neat touches of comedy, but they seem subordinate...
Died. William Johnson, 41, tall, bearded baritone who starred in the Broadway musical Pipe Dream (opposite Helen Traubel), replaced Alfred Drake in Kismet (1954), sang the male lead in the London productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate; of a heart attack; in Flemington...
...last scenes, he turns into the father image-sober, sound, sententious, and yet as modern as a cubist grandfather's clock. In the meantime, the moviegoer has weltered through a series of vaguely amusing scenes that go nowhere almost as fast as the well-known labyrinth dream...