Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of the first World War (U.S. Marines) and a veteran of cruiser action in the Guadalcanal campaign, I celebrate these symptoms of vision and realistic idealism among veterans of World War II. This time we may rise above nationalistic and racialistic hysteria and above the familiar and disgraceful Legion lobbyism. We may demand, by virtue of our veteran power, instead, the kind of statesmanship that will indefinitely postpone World War No. III. It is high time...
...this industrial machine gave the world a brief vision of the abundance that modern technological organization holds in store. In 1943 the machine, many times more powerful, gave the world an exciting-but frightening-vision of the possibilities in the postwar peace. The achievement which Stalin saluted at Teheran was all the more impressive, Americans realized uneasily, because it seemed unheroic in almost everything except its scale...
...student, a quoter of Quintilian, solid and grey as the rocky heath of Avila where he used to walk with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness of vision, how much was modesty, how much was love of quietness and independence? . . . Education such as I received in Boston was steadier and my associations more regular and calmer than they would have been in Spain, but there was a terrible moral disinheritance involved, an emotional and intellectual chill, a pettiness and practicality...
...slickest ever seen in Manhattan's packed and cheering Madison Square Garden. Basketbol shares Cuban sporting fervor with beisbol and boxeo. The season lasts seven months on outdoor, wooden courts. It took Havana's team only ten minutes to get their indoor bearings. From then on split-vision faking and passing kept them always in the lead. The "Caballeros of the Caribbean" go home after two more games: with Canisius at Buffalo early this week, and with Temple at Philadelphia on New Year...
Aldous Huxley ranks these works with other final achievements of great artists-Beethoven's last quartets, the last poems of Yeats, the later paintings of El Greco. In the Goyas, Huxley sees a vision of "the unplumbed depths of original sin and original stupidity. . . . We are in a world of demons, witches and familiars . . . wholly disquieting inasmuch as it reveals the sort of thing that goes on in the squalid catacombs of the human mind...