Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in London in 1757, William Blake impressed his parents at the age of four by seeing God's head in the window. No mere precocity, this faculty of imaginative vision remained his extraordinary endowment throughout life. Before he was 20 he learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal...
...stirred was Utah's ordinarily placid New Dealer Elbert Thomas that a "vision" came to him in bed. He got up at 2 a. m. to write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...
Beautiful is the first vision...
During the timeouts, the spectators gather about the bleeding players and listen avidly while the latter form their plots as they run their fingers across their skate-blades, testing their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim...
...Littauer, clearly, is no theoretical idealist. He translates his vision into action, within his compass. The school at Harvard, for example, is designed to train superior administrators of public office, a worthy objective, and the Littauer Foundation was founded to promote "better understanding among mankind...