Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vision of Er," Professor Gulick, Sever...
...Aristide Briand, it can be truly said that the obituary platitudes commonly uttered when a statesman dies, in his case take on some measure of flesh and blood. Although the vision he had of a general peace and a reorganized Europe was by no means unique, circumstances and his oratorical gift gave him a unique position as the spokesman of that ideal. He appeared to the world as the counterpoise, in French politics, to the ingrained chauvinism which has made France the popular ogre of the pacifists. His truest measure is found not in the compromises to which internal policies...
...weird theory that the force of thought, a dominant thought, may be strong and powerful enough to be somehow transferred to stone in its receptive state. How this Christ-like figure came to be there, of course I don't know. It is an illusion that grows before the vision. Has thought the power of life? People can scoff, but the figure is there...
During the ensuing years he fought with his tribe against the Wasichus, took his first scalp at Custer's Last Stand. Though Black Elk fought, fled, starved with the rest, always he pondered how to materialize his vision. At 17 he grew sick with fear because he could do nothing. An old medicine man advised him: "You must do your duty and perform this vision for your people upon earth." Together they organized an elaborate ritual dance. All the people acted out Black Elk's vision in detail. After the dance everybody, even the horses, felt better. Black...
Knee (1890) buried the Indian's dream in blood and snow. Black Elk leaves his story there, concludes: "I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth-you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead...