In the 1930s U. S. Route 66, a dream forwarded by fellow Oklahoman Cyrus Avery, would come to Sayre, cementing the town ’ s fate to fuel the cars and feed the people exploring the country.

During the 1950s, a number of " dream cars " were built by Packard in an attempt to keep the marque alive in the imaginations of the American car-buying public.

american dream, and its visual style of certain objects such as robots, energy weapons and destroyed cars carry a strong sense of 1950's thoughts on future technology.

Coupled with his personal affection for cars, Mr. Lee's dream of building SMI as a global force started out with technical assistance from Nissan, a company which at the time of SMI's early stages was in dire financial straits.

In the United States, the term " dream car " ( a common US name for concept cars until the 1970s ) is often used historically to refer to concept automobiles of the 1950s and 1960s.

After leaving high school, he spent a year in an engineering workshop manufacturing trolleybuses, whereafter he went to engineering college in Örebro in order to realise his dream of fully understanding cars and entering into the auto industry.

In 1993, the car was discovered by British car enthusiast Andy Saunders of Poole, Dorset, in a sketch in a book about dream cars ; " It was so ugly it was unreal.

Although the SC / 360 could not compete with the holdover big-engined muscle cars, the SC combined respectable quickness ( 0 to 60 mph in 6. 7 seconds and the 1 / 4 mile dragstrip in 14. 9 at with a taut suspension, big tires, and modest size ; thus Motor Trend magazine described it as " just a plain gas to drive ... it handles like a dream.

*: Car-like mecha created by Dappu when he infused his Kurumagic power into the Carranger's dream cars.

There was also a dream of a garden of rest on Market Square ( outside Osmond Terrace which now has parked cars ), with ornamental trees and clumps of shrubs in front of what was Victoria Hotel which is now a dwelling and previously a shop owned by Mr & Mrs. Rimmer, and nearby to the Victoria Inn at the time which later became Midland Bank / HSBC, but unfortunately this was never fulfilled.

Revival of the line began as the dream of Ruth Cross, director for the University of Arizona's Centennial Celebration in 1983, to see the historic street cars returned to the Old Pueblo for the University's centennial.

Taylor shared with Piper a dream of making airplanes as common as cars for Americans.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

An earlier but still influential school of painting, surrealism, had suggested the way of dealing with the dream experience, that event in which seemingly incongruous objects are linked together through the curious associations of the subconscious.

During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

and amid a dusty desolation in which nothing human any longer seemed to survive, Vincent Berger begins to dream of the Occident.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities.

I recall the startling, vivid realism of a dream in which I lived through the horror of the bombing of a little Korean town.

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

In December 1852 Johnson realized his dream of passage in the House of his Homestead Act, which even garnered the support of Horace Greeley.

Solomon worshipped before the Ark after his dream in which God promised him wisdom ( 1 Kings 3: 15 ).

Dubbed " Abu Hashim ", Nami was considered " gentle in manner " by his colleagues, and reported that he had a dream in which he rode a mare along with Muhammad, and that the prophet told him to dismount and fight his enemies to liberate his land.

Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.

* a passage in which Mordecai interprets his dream ( from the prologue ) in terms of the events that followed

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

During dream sleep, in contrast, people who are awakened report rich and detailed experiences in which events form a continuous progression, which may however be interrupted by bizarre or fantastic intrusions.

* Creation ex nihilo in which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a divine being

Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed " Lynchian ", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design.

Eleanor reputedly had had a dream in which she foresaw her son Henry's death.

' The subject situates himself as determined by the phantasy ... whether in the dream or in any of the more or less well-developed forms of day-dreaming '; and as a rule ' a subject's fantasies are close variations on a single theme ... the " fundamental fantasy "... minimizing the variations in meaning which might otherwise cause a problem for desire '.

The American dream

The American dream was compounded of many strains.

To some, Carnegie represents the idea of the American dream.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* Antioch College-the result of American educator Horace Mann's dream to establish a college comparable to Harvard but with some notable differences.

His rags-to-riches story, having worked his way through college, has led film historians like Ian Freer to consider Capra the " American dream personified.

' Forever Changes ' unlocked a new musical palette for African American musicians to utilize, which paved the way for future song cycles like Marvin Gaye's ' What's Going On ' and Sly Stone's ' There's a Riot Going On ,' classics by other African Americans that also chronicled the increasingly despondent state of the American dream.

It was followed by the darker, less commercial The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family.

Some Native American tribes used vision quests as a rite of passage, fasting and praying until an anticipated guiding dream was received, to be shared with the rest of the tribe upon their return.

As noted by Santopietro, " what Puzo delivered-brilliantly-was nothing less than a disquisition on the madness, glory, and failure of the American dream.

Calhoun was thus firmly convinced that slavery was the key to the success of the American dream.

Bolívar's dream had been to engender an American Revolution-style federation among all the newly independent republics, with a government set up solely to recognize and uphold the rights of the individual.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

Stavros realizes that such a marriage would mean the end of his American dream and adamantly refuses, abruptly leaving the angry cousin.

* Marina and the Diamonds's second album Electra Heart is based on a character she created of the same name whose story is told through the album, and which portrays the darker side of the American dream with elements of Greek tragedy which are particularly apparent in her visuals and aesthetic.

In Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Leucotios appears in the main character's dream of forgotten gods.

Written by John Patrick, the film is about three American women working in Rome who dream of finding romance in the Eternal City.

Skull saw much potential in the American dream of capitalism and self-determination and set about establishing his own foothold inside Washington DC, culminating in him gaining control over " The Commission ", a government body in Washington that monitored and regulated superhero activities.

Although a scarce nine square miles in area, Cedar Creek LTER sits at the confluence of three major North American biomes ( Boreal Forest, Deciduous Forest, and Prairie ), and as such is regarded as an ecologists " dream laboratory.

* Carolyn Foland, American actress and artist ( b. 1969 -), daughter of artist Colleen Shannon-Moriarty ( b. 1936-), the only child of Evelyn Moriarty, American Actress, Film and Television star ( credits include: It's a wonderful life, Some like it hot, The Misfits, Somethings got to give, I dream of Jeannie, Stand-in for Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Eden, Ann-Margret ( d. 2008 ) Interred at Westwood memorial village, in the sanctuary of Peace with Dean Martin and family.

In 1949, Haney was hired by Gene Kelly to be his assistant choreographer on MGM musical films, and she aided Kelly in some of his best work, including On the Town, Summer Stock, An American in Paris, Singin ' in the Rain ( she dubbed Kelly's taps in the title song ), and Kelly's dream project, Invitation to the Dance.