Word: dreamwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form, Bend Sinister is a frank piece of dreamwork. Real as only a serious work of imagination can be, it tells the story of Philosopher Adam Krug during a revolution in a dream country which has strong resemblances to Germany, to Russia and, in certain aspects, to the U.S. The frightened faculty of his university call on Philosopher Krug to intercede for their institution with the new dictator, Paduk (nicknamed the Toad), who was a clammy schoolmate of Krug's 30 years before. Krug refuses; the dictatorship goes...
...conversions, told his students that they were just "roughnecks." His enthusiasm for the P.R.B. boys, however, caught one young student, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, who was a wealthy retired lawyer when he died in 1943. Winthrop left his art collection (6,000 art objects, including the spate of Pre-Raphaelite dreamwork on display last week) to the Fogg...