Word: vision
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relationship of Ford to Labor, so that, at the end of their apprenticeship, they may submit elaborate reports of their findings to the Ford Industrial Research Bureau. For the best report, there is promised a "handsome prize." "What is meant by handsome?" asked Yale students warily, seeing in vision four lean wheels, an impertinent bonnet, an upholstered rattle...
...American democracy has lost its vision. In its crass materialism it has forgotten the great broad theories and ideals of government upon which it was founded. A little sound reflective thought is needed, a restatement of creeds and goals. A sound conception of the nature and sphere of government would prevent, for example, the motion picture censorship undertaken by the municipal Worcester Board of Review which is now to use Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and members of the Worcester Boys' and Girls' Club as judges. Even the Boston American sees the absurdity of this movement, and gently pokes...
...graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head; others marshaled their faculties...
...loss which Harvard suffers by the retirement of LeBaron Russell Briggs can be estimated only by his extraordinary record of service and achievement. His has been a personal guidance; he has given his students vision, and he has sent them out on the path of life inspired by a tradition which they could not quite define, but which has been to them a very real and living force...
...came to fame as the spokesman of cubism. His language wears silk. He has written innumerable essays upon such subjects as The Artist's Vision, Art and Socialism, Ancient American Art, Art and Life, Vision and Design. Young painters, students in England, France, the U.S., have hailed him as their prophet...