Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will be no peace in China...
Over the radio the National Broadcasting Company honored Franz Drdla, composer of such lush violin music as Souvenir, Serenade, Vision, Madrigal. Drdla is 60 now, eking out a meager living in Vienna by making tenpenny tunes...
...other hand, if one is sufficiently sensitive in vision and feeling, it seems as if there would always be all sorts of things in the aspect of objects about us worth recording--color, form, pattern, and that these can be treated in such a way as to give us pretty paint surfaces, harmonious and sparkling color and agreeable design, things which, hung on the walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty...
...price. The stage is darkened for a moment, and there appear seated at a table the youthful Faust and the youthful Mephistopheles, the latter a leader in all the conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made to restore to Gounod's musical classic a dramatic illusion in story that will appeal to the intelligence and will also serve to incorporate, with the music a rational source from which that music may be seen...
...Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does the Stravinsky of today appear to a handful of those who pretend to understand...