Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vision of Er," Professor Gulick, Sever...
This noted Irish poet and painter, "a mixture of dreamer and man of facts," to quote Professor F. N. Robinson '91 who introduced the speaker, believes that dreams for the common man as well as for the poet and painter open a new field of vision, a combination of many memories that in waking consciousness could never be produced. To illustrate his point he told of a dream wherein he found himself flying above the rooftops of his native Dublin. As this happened long before the days of airplanes, it gave him an entirely new conception of the houses...
Clemenceau was the "Tiger," the atheist, the master. Foch was the strategist, the Catholic, the messiah of battle whose military vision seemed to come at times from a Supernatural Power. Also a Catholic,* also at times a masterful man, Joffre could fail of the highest achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique...
Frau Einstein is immensely proud of her husband. Says she: "He works like an artist. He sees a vision ... he works feverishly ... his temperature rises, his face becomes flushed and in his eyes there appears a far-away-look." When he is working hard on his theories she makes a rite of leaving him alone. "All these things I must do so that he will think he is free. ... He is all my life. ... He is worth it. ... I like being Mrs. Einstein very much. It is very important...
...threatens which paralyzes economic efforts in this world recovery. . . . Even economics may be willing to play a hand with deuces wild but it has not yet learned how to play when half the pack may be declared wild at any moment. . . . "If political forces must be guided by a vision of the unattainable, economic forces must be guided always by a vision of the attainable. The problem of reconciling the two is the most immediate and difficult in the world." An immediate result of the Young speech: political despatches from Washington printed under such headlines as: AMAZING TREND TO OWEN...