Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes, dreams become reality. And Saturday, the Crimson's dream became Princeton's nightmare...
...novel opens on a scene of riotous confusion: a midsummer night's ball at Oxford University, where a circle of friends who had met at college some 30 years earlier assemble to dance and drink until dawn. If this setting reminds anyone of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, so much the better, for many of the events in The Book and the Brotherhood make sense chiefly as manifestations of Renaissance romance: frantic and aimless wanderings, repeated instances of women falling suddenly, inexplicably in love with inappropriate...
...homeless, the aged, the ill. We are at a point in this country where all the visions, liberal and conservative, have come and gone, and we are left standing among the quite specific and various problems that those visions either created or failed to address. No new mythic dream will clean up the mess, and no one really knows what to do about much of it. Yet we are still part of the original 200-year-old vision that saw America as a power wanting to be as good as it is great. The candidate who knows that...
...Eric Korn's half-arch, half-vernacular translation, in which vulgarity and clumsy colloquialism ("Is death the net result of all my love?") clash with the neoclassicism of the set and costumes. The plot is a sour inversion of the lovers' tangle in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Orestes (Kevin McNally), son of the murdered war hero Agamemnon, pursues his cousin Hermione (Penelope Wilton), daughter of Helen of Troy, who in turn loves Achilles' son Pyrrhus (Peter Eyre). But Pyrrhus, although betrothed to Hermione, has insulted his fellow Greeks by offering his heart and throne to Andromache (Janet Suzman), widow...
...some performers, a contract in the West can never be more than a dream. Because the Communist Party exercises indirect control over cultural life in the bloc countries, even mild expressions of political dissent can be enough to deny sports stars as well as rock singers a passport. By the same token, mediocre talents boasting party membership often jump to the front of the line for jobs in the West. Explains a young Czechoslovak tennis player in Prague: "Here sports and culture are all part of politics...