Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outset I thought of him as some how having the air of a somnambulist, a sleepwalker." From the suggestion offered by this contact with a real person has grown, during the intervening years, a character who walks among the living in a spiritual sleep, passes through redemption in a dream voyage, and into physical death before the eyes of the audience...
...apparent thinness and elusiveness of the character are reasonable enough in the context of the play. As the curtain rises. Mr. Arcularis lies on the operating table in a surgical amphitheater, surrounded by doctors and nurses and watched by unseen medical students. Then Mr. Arcularis drifts into his ether dream, a strange, cold, ocean voyage which makes up the heart of the play. Finally in the growing chill and the gradual slowing of the ships engines the scene returns to the operating room and the death of Mr. Arcularis...
...Dream Voyage...
...Saturday the varsity should beat Columbia in New York, and a week later, on March 9, only divine intervention seems likely to keep Yale from bringing an undefeated Crimson's dream world shattering down...
...beside him stood Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft, the two most dedicated Europeans in the British Cabinet. "We are an obstinate people, of strong habits," Eccles went on. "After each major war we have retired to our island, licked our wounds and pretended it was a bad dream of no significance. But in Britain we are now ready for the decisive offer." The offer: to participate in a European Free Trade Area of 17 nations, within which there would be no tariffs or import quotas on manufactured goods (TIME...