Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot has had a vision, as is well known, of 'the cactus land,' of a parched, desertic world-not of a dark so much as of an ash-grey age-in which the springs of life dried. In painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...
...rubber goods. When it had trundled three-fourths of a mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
...knew the answer. But the be ginning of an answer seemed to be in the making. The man who had formulated it, grandiosely and still vaguely, was an American with the face of an aging movie idol, the vision of a statesman and the stature of a great fighter. He was General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) and (in the words of the Japanese), Yankee Emperor of Nippon...
...Milestone? When MacArthur sizes up the job the U.S. has done in Japan, he talks about a "milestone in the march of man." To spectators with less sweeping vision, this estimate seemed premature. But many would agree that, in Japan, the U.S. and MacArthur have acquitted themselves creditably in spite of the basic mistakes made in the first phase of the occupation. They were the mistakes of righteous anger and of unfamiliarity with the enormous problem of dealing with a conquered enemy, and in as far as they can be, they are on the way to being redressed...
Sartre's writing is occasionally much better than this pathological reverie, and in spots the book has an ingenuity and sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...