Word: daydream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hudson, is free of many of the difficulties besetting Exeter. Working on a $13,000 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, it initiated a pilot study to determine the practicality of a four-quarter program. The original announcement sounded like some sort of educator's daydream...
...daydream of every honest bookkeeper: snatch the company payroll, high-tail to Paris and set up light housekeeping with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot. In A Taste for Champagne, Hans Con-ried, Monique Van Vooren and Scott Mc Kay make the caper come off with style...
Calculated or casual, Shirley looks to a lot of Hollywood Toynbees like the start of a new cycle. Every so often, of course, a new ruler must move in to take over from tired hands and smile-weary faces, for Hollywood panders to every man's daydream of eternal youth. The guy in the air-cooled gloom of the theater grows older every year, but his dream girl is the same age always. The surprise is not that Shirley has moved to the top, but that she has been able to do it on her own terms without cheesecake...
...quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which is now backed by the National Science Foundation: to drill a hole right down through the earth's crust to its hidden interior...
...fastest guns in the Territory. At that instant, of course, he wins the heart of the cutie that's known as Kate (Jayne Mansfield), but to his horror he also acquires a sheriff's star. And so the rest of the picture resolves into a daydream of how easily the West would have been won if the English, instead of mere colonials...