Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ludwig. "The professors dislike me because of my method. They cannot excuse my habit of beginning with a vision of my man and then getting my sources and historical details...
After absorbing the thought, as well as those facts which naturally stick in the memory, of "Living Machinery", one is left with a perceptibly broadened vision, and with a greater sense of what scientific research has done, and will continue...
...some time "The Student Vagabond" has been giving me a steadily increasing pain in the neck, which has now reached the point where I am going to say something about it. Whoever he is, he displays a narrow spread of vision in his choice of subjects, to say the least. It is quite obvious that he is concentrating in history and literature, and that his two friends are in fine arts and philosophy. Thus far this year there have been, to the best of my knowledge, one reference to a lecture in the division of music, one reference...
...possess a particle of your leader's [Dr. Sun Yat-sen's] vision or remember that close co-operation with Soviet Russia was his last will, then you will stop this headlong plunging toward a precipice, dragging with you the fate of your country...
...presented by these same Irish players, reimported, the play stirred gallery screams of disapproval at the Manhattan opening night; no scrimmage. Pacific natives in the audience viewed it as a shrewd and often violently flavored vision of other peoples' poor; heard some bad writing, some rare poetry, much cutting humor. Much of the acting was of high excellence. Despite flaws quickly visible to the eye of local playgoers, used to smooth productions of the best of our producers, the Irish players are eventful visitors...