Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised or lowered on its stand to fix the spectator's eye in the exact centre, even with the rim. Then by rolling his eyes the gallerygoer could see painted on the inside of the hemisphere everything that had come within the painter's field of vision when he looked wide-eyed at his subject. Responsible for this unique artistic experience was a freckled, 31-year-old artist named Robert Henry Blickenderfer, who has been working on his ''neo- scopes" for three years...
Edward L. Yordan, research associate, is giving a series of lectures and driving tests of, vision, reaction and coordination. Another course, entitled "Reading Up-To-Eate", is under the direction of Everett Alldredge. It consists in the reading of one new book each month for class discussion...
...Advocate is the wide range of topics all the way from Harvard debating through the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the War at Shanghai, and even to the solution of the whole economic-political problem of our time. The editors may justly be proud of such a breadth of vision in comparison with the narrowness of college literary magazines; and the business board must be pleased by a bill of fare certain to appeal to a wide audience...
...outstanding contribution, I think, is Mr. Laughlin's story, "The River." The backnoyed theme of the Middle-Western boys with the vision of "a better, richer life far, far away" from Springfield, Wisconsin, is handled with maturity of perception and of style. The single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles...
...Curley, his golden voice hoarse, prepared to depart for the West Indies. To reporters who intimated that he had received a second unmistakable cue for his political exit, the old boss parried: "I will decide what to do next when I have had a rest and my vision is clear...