Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused to be intimidated." Hefty Heroine Theodora Peck said: "You're just a nudist when you are one. You aren't directed by a vision." Lily de Lyse, who once played with Jimmy Durante in a Manhattan night club, sniffed: "Me nude? I'm an actress. This is a job, non?" A Guild manifesto requested newspaper critics "to view the show with an open mind, and not as writers out on a unique lark...
...eyeball becomes as big as it ever will when a child is about four years old. "The practical implication of this [is] that defects of vision, which indicate anomaly of growth, must be corrected far earlier in childhood than is customary today...
...knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army...
...That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build it, a "spiritual symbol" for the city and the University, he has spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires. For it he has sacrificed many things, among them the liberal principles he once held. His Board...
...heard footsteps behind him and turned to confront a vision in white. She smiled at him. "You mustn't get so excited about this. It's something that happens every day. Why, one would think it was you that was having the baby...