Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson has inaugurated a movement which, if the actuality even approximates the vision, should exert a real and vital influence on the men who direct the policies of the nation. Whatever else it may do, the experiment will furnish valuable information as to the direct effect which the expressed opinion of a mass of people can have on the laws which are to govern them. The Cornell...
...worked to make it. Whatever is seen through the camera has the novelty, strength and directness that the same images might have as they flowed in the thought-stream, rapid and silent, of some vigorous, original mind. Best shot: the War in Filimonov's tortured memory symbolized as a vision of himself as a Russian soldier, meeting and recognizing himself at an intersection of searchlights as a German soldier; then his own image again, as captain of a battery, receiving and executing the order that blows both other images into eternity...
...concluded, "It might be possible, by drawing on our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution; by gathering some noble, prophetic essays such as those of Emerson and Carlyle, and poems of longing and vision from Lowell, Whittler and Tennyson, together with a few of Lincoln's addresses and other inspiring writings of our modern times, to make a modern bible to add to the ancient book, and it need not suffer by the comparison...
...proposing that we substitute the inspiring power of the vision of an ideal humanity for fear of hell and hope of heaven as a driving power in the life of men; and that God within--the unifying element which drives men to unity in a brotherly world--replace a medieval, imperial deity who makes irrational demands on his human subjects and savagely punishes or extravagantly rewards those who anger or please him; who looks upon this world and its happiness as immaterial or evil, centering all interest on a supposed life after death...
Millions of U. S. citizens had ears at the opening of the London Naval Conference, but barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime...