Standing on the little bridge where Wayne's Sean Thornton hears his dead mother's voice, it struck me that Ford created the most potent cinematic images of two countries, Ireland and America, indelibly shaping our dreams.
Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams.
"The Vision of Emma Blau" is about legacies and hopes, curses and constraints: the places we come from and the families we build, the dreams that shape our futures and the stories we tell ourselves about the past.
Until I read Mr. Nachman's captivating, highly personal book, "Raised on Radio," I didn't realize -- or remember -- just how much a generation was conditioned by that ubiquitous box of sounds, or how radio shaped our language, conversation and dreams.
Open yourself up to self-awareness and shape your dreams into reality.
Creating a vision board can be a good way for you to find inspiration, identify and shape your dreams, and keep you focused and motivated.
There is the idea that the dead never do wholly cross, staying on in memory, shaping our projections, paranoias, desires and dreams.
From the California system's choices: "Describe the world you come from -- for example, your family, community or school -- and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations".
In India's case, one recent consequence of a rapidly growing and globalising economy has been an outpouring of books with titles like "Remaking India", "Shaping India of our Dreams", "The Great Indian Dream", "Rising Elephant" and "Rethinking India".
Joan Didion, who first saw him on screen in 1943, later wrote that 'when John Wayne rode through my childhood, and perhaps through yours, he determined forever the shape of certain of our dreams..
