Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unless there is a change in the present lineup, it is possible that Japan will have to allocate Northern Manchuria to Russia and limit her expansion, on which is based her dream of a new order in Asia, to South China...
...small exhibition at the Neumann-Willard Gallery (24 carefully selected pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...
Camouflage in the last war meant whirls, blotches, stripes and curlycues with which "experts" made common objects look like a futurist's bad dream. Stripes and blotches were supposed to do for ships and tanks what stripes and blotches are supposed to do for giraffes and tigers. Camouflage artists called the effect "disruptive coloration." At sea it was meant not to conceal the ship but to spoil U-boats' calculations of its speed and course, make torpedoes miss their mark. Opponents of dazzle long insisted that camouflage should conceal as well as confuse, and since World...
There went the dream of the Blitzkrieg, the lightning war, over in no time...
...keep the Red Army sitting on Russia's western marches until Hitler smashes Poland thoroughly. When that happens, if Hitler restores Germany's 1914 borders, Stalin might get some fat slices of pre-War Russia just for sitting still. And best of all, Stalin might achieve the Tsarist dream of owning Constantinople and the Dardanelles...