Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not a vision of forgotten, far off things, nor is it a gratuitous advertisement of the local charms of New Hampshire. It is the Arnold Arboretum, at the other side of Boston, on any Spring day, a place more talked of than visited by Harvard men, though even the Yard with its trees and its few remaining grassplots and its memories must yield to it. They little know of Harvard who only Harvard know, and have not seen the lilacs in bloom, or that side of the university where beauty is more than scholarship, and pedantry is harmlessly...
...Meher Baba met a holy woman named Baba Jan (Angel of the Father) who died lately at Poona at the reputed age of 130. Meher Baba soon had a vision of his divine nature. For nine months he lay in a coma, came out of it "merged into God." It is explained that many people are in such a super-conscious state but few can remain in touch with the world, like Meher Baba, and help others to attain divinity...
...Holy Land, now cursed with war, Christophe's agonizing pity, half-realized intimations, grow too intense. Tenderly, as if she were unfolding clouds behind which glory shines, Authoress Hall recounts how Christophe goes out one night with a patrol; how he wanders from the others, possessed with his vision; how, holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse...
...glamor and majesty of the state which could make such a boast was not lost on a Europe which had already awakened to the vision of empire, and the ascendant star of the city "where the merchants are the kings, where St. Mark's is, where the doges used to wed the sea with rings," was seen and worshipped west as well as east. A young Londoner, knowing no more of Venice than its rumored fame, caught some of the majesty, and more of the glamor, in a play called "The Merchant of Venice." Today Venetians themselves turn...
...which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge the reproduction with the impression that the mind receives, and the imagination which is evoked by the vision...