Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that Purgatory exists, as we believe firmly that Hell and Heaven exist, because God has made known this to us through the Catholic Church. . . . It is a place of detention where the imperfect departed souls are purified before entrance into Heaven by suffering both from deprivation of the vision of God and from some kind of confinement by fire...
...shameful blow when the fact was made known Tuesday that Professor Baker, representing creative Art at Harvard has been forced to resign: forced to resign because the liberalism of Harvard was not great enough to permit originality to flourish forced to resign because of the practical and narrow vision of those who control our universities...
...question was argued on both sides for several minutes when someone with a more practical and clearsighted vision of affairs arose and stated: "It doesn't matter anyway because the only reason people take Military Science here is because it is a snap course, and the only thing they care about getting...
...book is about as notable a piece of work as the autumn has produced. Mr. O'Higgins' style is eminently readable, his vision penetrating. He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity. His portrait of Julie is no less a finished study of a strange and intriguing personality...
...most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest blasphemy. Finally, he finds peace in the great Benedictine monasteries of Italy. Mr. Mackenzie's work is notable for spiritual vision...