Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seek a vision nearer the stars, I will not Praise a world I cannot claim...
...outlook.* As a matter of fact, time is of more importance to a "lifer" who is alive than it is to the ordinary termer. The termer has a more or less definite time of freedom to look forward to. But the lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole or commutation. His conduct is constantly under more careful scrutiny than the termer because it has so much more bearing upon his eventual release than is true to the termer. The termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent...
...register a pre-season nomination for TIME'S next Man of the Year. Let your list of candidates for this distinction begin with . . . the one man whose vision and devotion to the public good are even now changing the entire course of social evolution: DR. FRANCIS EVERETT TOWNSEND...
These men were the pioneers who opened the trail from American college to German universities and returned to preach the gospel of German philosophy, philology, and science. All but one had gone out from Harvard; all but one returned to Harvard to expound the new vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty...
...motley parade of Greeks and Elizabethans through Hollywood settings is odd, but no more odd than the whole conception of the film. What was an airy, dignified, wistful vision has been degraded beyond all measure. As an example of the Hollywood-Oriental influence on the English theatre it is supremely interesting, but as a representation of Shakespeare, it is miles...