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...full enjoyment of the best literature, study is necessary. [This study] is a discipline. In all civilized societies it has been honored as one. Directors of our public schools show an increasing tendency to ignore this fact. . . . The sentimental idea that literature is first and last a dreamland of desire has led many school administrators, under the impression that they are being progressive, to permit the old-fashioned hard work of grammar, language, and letters to be displaced by an elaborate picnic of adolescent emotions...
Enter Something Wilson. In the New York Times Magazine, British Journalist C. (for Carolyn) A. Lejeune brilliantly caricatured Hollywood's version of the Great Dreamland...
They all know that though it bears little resemblance to a New Hampshire lake or Jones Beach, it's still a very nice place to play around in on a hot spring night while Junior frolics in dreamland and his pater dodges the academic flak...
...picture's naturalism is stylized, of course, and is by no means the first of its kind in films. But in Boomerang! the trick is fully and perfectly turned. Also, an important corner is turned, away from Hollywood's rather monotonous dreamland, into the illimitable possibilities of the world the eye actually sees. Around that corner, many other films may follow, to everybody's profit...
Greene to Hearst: "I am sending you two sample pages of Dick's Adventures in Dreamland which start a series about Christopher Columbus...