Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hapeville, Ga., Jolly white-haired Mrs. C. F. Morgan, who once dreamed that her husband's finger would be cut off (it was), announced her fourth vision of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred J. Noonan, lost in the Pacific since July 2, 1937. Mrs. Morgan's dreams: Earhart and Noonan are alive on a densely thicketed four-acre island; her hair "has grown long and waves in the breeze"; she cooks over a clay pot supported by part of her plane's framework, invariably asks Mrs. Morgan "to come closer and I'll explain...
...year 5,000 A.D., if shown the present Neutrality Act of the United States, along with the recent speeches of the President, could not by the wildest stretch of vision deduce that they were expressions of one and the same government. On the one hand is the Neutrality Law, careful, measured, and calm. The reader can see written into it the long toil, and debate, and painstaking devotion of its makers, men full of zeal for one thing--keeping a nation out of war. On the other hand are Mr. Roosevelt's addresses, stirring and emotional, speaking of a civilization...
...those who stand face to face with the fact of war see with a clearer vision, and know that the forebodings of those who have declared that war is ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly bcome magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...
...Gesell believes that children are not only charming but startling, is firmly convinced that it is silly to try to measure them by intelligence tests. He has worked out an elaborate method of spying on them from behind a one-way-vision screen. In The First Five Years of Life he describes: 1) how a normal child grows; 2) how one normal child differs from another. Normal behavior at different ages...
...smart, middleaged, successful advertising-man, who had turned his hand to conducting publicity campaigns for Florida politicos, set out to drive the 212-mile stretch between Jacksonville and Tampa. He reached Tampa alive but different: on the way he had had a dazzling vision of life as it could be, had said good-by to the beliefs which until then had stimulated his business career. Thinking he might have gone crazy, he consulted doctors, acquaintances, himself. But nothing relieved his perplexity until one day he wrote some verses about the English coronation-which he immediately sent to every paper...