Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whitehead was saturated with the sense of a divine influence, which organizes the universe so that what is worth saving is never wholly lost. For Whitehead, God was not an awesome tyrant but "the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness." It is a long, hard road. In the Odyssey of the human spirit, said Whitehead, "every generation must carry the cross up the hill and there suffer for the next generation." Last week in Cambridge, Mass., 86-year-old Philosopher Whitehead went over his hill...
...said the Tsar eagerly, elbowing his wife's ghost out of the way. "What statesmanship! What vision...
Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, translated in this volume, has no equal among modern elegies for directness in the vision of death and for symphonic magnificence of form. Mejias was a torero, an Andalusian and friend of Lorca's, who died after a goring...
...Mackenzie King seemed less a personality than a symbol of a generous Canada that had time & again stood beside the mother country. Said the London Times when he received the Order of Merit: "He has been loyal to Canada, loyal to the Commonwealth, and loyal also to a larger vision of the brotherhood of humanity...
...Vision. When Nellie opened her place in 1909 there was not much at Palm Springs but a run-down hotel, eleven dilapidated houses and a handful of settlers...