Word: dreamworld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation is still going on, and the "cruise" is only Mr. Arcularis' ether dream. His "fellow passengers" are really the surgeon and his assistants, with two notable exceptions: Mr. Arcularis' mother and her lover, who have been dead for nearly half a century. In this dreamworld of his own anesthetized devising, Mr. Arcularis falls in love with a pretty shipmate, but in the darkness of night he keeps sleepwalking gruesomely to the ship's refrigerating plant and tries to pry open a coffin: "And I'll kneel there, looking down at my own dead face...
Kings & Jeweled Chains. They come with a variety of symptoms. One lived in a dreamworld of knights and kings. Another, who had been a model child, suddenly went berserk, smashed every bit of glass in his home, disappeared for four days. A few had threatened suicide; one boy had stolen his mother's jewelry. One arrived wearing five vests, another brought 100 ties, still another came wearing a jeweled chain about his neck. One packed a loaded revolver, another brought along a stack of books on psychology. A few had religious manias, and one had the habit of setting...
...long, sweaty daydreams about his body ("like a young bull"). "I was the peasant," she cries, "but I gave my hosband glory." One day reality in the improbable form of Alvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), "a bachelor wit' three dependents," breaks into Serafina's dank little dreamworld. Like the smuggler, he drives a truck, and has a rose tattooed on his brawny chest, which reminds Serafina almost unbearably of her husband's. Hard facts as well as a new set of hard muscles break the husband's deadlock on her affections-it turns out he had been...
...came to Boston this week amid the roars of lions, tigers, panthers, and assorted lesser beasts. Emmet Kelly, shown here, and the rest of the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey cast will give two shows daily through Sunday. For as little as $1.50 students can lose themselves in a dreamworld of clowns, high wire acts, side shows, and menageries. All seats are reserved, but any Ford Foundation students under twelve can get in for half-price by going on a weekday afternoon to the matinee...
...years of your timely existence transcends in importance, and in an understandable analysis of a difficult subject . . . When our heads are knocked off, that may be an end of our dreaming. But for the moment, we out-Carroll Carroll in our "magic operations in the dreamworld...