Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany with war; Britain with the freedom of the individual man. India, islanded by sea and land, and haunted by the hourly wanton foreclosure of life by death, looked within and found that its obsession was the soul and its creator, the problem of good & evil. It embodied this vision in one of the world's great faiths (Buddhism) and in religious works of great power (the Vedas and Upanishads). India, under its squalor and its filth, its superstitions and its cruel ties, its babble of 75 languages and dialects and hodge-podge of peoples, its lethal famines...
...greater danger to day than the belief of the people of the United States that our military victories, and the creation of an International Organization, will automatically bring with them the establishment of peace on earth and that thereafter, as individuals, they need do nothing further to make this vision come true...
...subject of my address to you this morning is "The Vision of a World at Peace...
...uninhibited; they paint as they please. Dr. Jermayne MacAgy sums it up in her catalogue introduction : "A few years ago . . . mannered representations of the 'American Scene' publicized an artificial point of view. . . . Today, there is no better reflection of America's international attitude than the . . . cosmopolitan vision among artists...
...some features of this vision are already in practice. Classification tests, mechanical aids, and language-teaching methods have been highly developed by the Army & Navy. First-grade-through-college aviation training has been adopted by some 15 states. Tolerance classes are routine in Springfield, Mass. Several school boards have established summer camps for individual schools. Especially in large cities, vocational high schools and work-experience programs are no longer a novelty. The fast-as-you-can-go college course is a going experiment at the University of Chicago...