Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between Ancient Greece and Modern Greece is 2,000 years of intermarriage with Romans, Slavs, Bulgars, Vlachs, Sicilian Normans, Franks, Serbs, Venetians, Albanians, Turks. In modern Greek politics, the republican traditions of ancient Greece have become primarily a dream in the brain of Greece's ex-Grand Old Man Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos whose revolution of republicans and Greek islanders was smashed last spring by monarchical mainlanders (TIME, March 25). Since then Greek politicians have been scrambling on the monarchist bandwagon but always with reservations about actually recalling Greece's ex-King George...
...Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner). A year ago Director Max Reinhardt took his famed stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Hollywood Bowl. Its reception there impressed upon Cineman Jack Warner a fact long familiar to stage impresarios: although most people may doze through his plays, they will pay well to see William Shakespeare performed. With what the cinema industry immediately hailed as an unparalleled display of courage, optimism, and esthetic vision, Producer Warner thereupon started work...
...alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith, was a pleasant comedy...
...hall, dimly lighted... The musty reek that lingers about dead leaves and last year's ferns... The epitaph: "Go tell the Spartans ye that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie"... View of John Weeks bridge from Duster at dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening clothes descending stairs... Percy Granger's "Country Gardens"; the "Song of India"... A direct blood transfusion between friends... We roofs beneath the lamp light... Polished brass knockers on doors of dull dwellings... The Charles river at sunset... Professor Whitehead lecturing; Professor Lake reading the Bible...
...trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations. So thoroughly has the Nazi Reich Bishop, blustering onetime Army Chaplain Luclwig Miiller, been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered...