Word: dreamworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city; the images of its faith stood everywhere. They were at least as close and familiar as the Hollywood dreamworld is today, and more vivid -especially at Christmas...
...take many years of such episodes to turn the young girl into a half-hysterical bundle of nerves. She became morbidly religious, wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...raised to respect plain arithmetic. He knows that a public debt of $137,000,000,000 cannot be merely whooshed away by wishful thinking; that some time someone must put cash down on the barrelhead. In brief, war or no war, he does not live in a dreamworld of frenzied finance...
...with the help of a delightful little bottle) led the sad child into a clearing in a "new, strange wood." There he saw "beautiful bright-plumaged roosters ... as tall as houses . . . their legs . . . like the pillars of cathedral aisles." William's only happiness was "escape into that other dreamworld" until in a moralistic moment Grandfather Seabrook smashed Grandmother's laudanum bottle. It was too late to smash the hypnotic effects of her drugged mind on young William...
Most of Hollywood's Angel transpires in the dreamworld of dimpled, operatic Nelson Eddy. As Budapest's jaded Count Willy Palaffi, Eddy falls asleep vowing he will marry nothing less than an angel. Obligingly, M.G.M. sends him Jeanette MacDonald (complete with wings). Since not even camera magic can etherealize perdurable Angel MacDonald, this is one dream to stump Freud-especially when DreamerEddy takes his Angel for a dream honeymoon in Paris...