Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory: Harry Truman might well ride into a new term on Eleanor Roosevelt's coattails. "I dare to suggest this winning formula to the Democrats," the Republican ex-Congresswoman concluded, "because it is almost certain that, being men first and Democrats second, they will not have the courage, vision or intelligence to adopt...
Such personal "singularities" and enlivening activities might have caused George Fox a slight anxiety. Pendle Hill, set in the midst of wealthy suburban Wallingford (twelve miles southwest of Philadelphia), is a long way in time & space from the Lancashire hill where Fox saw his vision of the future Religious Society of Friends. The gently rugged founder of Quakerism, known to his age as "the man in the leather breeches," might have found Pendle Hill's four spacious stone houses, its 15 acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which...
Bonnard's distinctive quality was a clear eye for color. His paintings not only seduce the eye, they also enrich its vision: they give one a fresh look at a nature that swims and sparkles with half-forgotten hues...
...which had ended in failure. "I tried to paint directly, scrupulously," he recalled, "and I let myself be absorbed by the details ... I realized that I was muddling, that I was getting nowhere. I had lost, I could no longer find my way back to my initial idea, the vision that had charmed me . . . the first seductiveness...
...vision, impenetrable skin and muscle, Superman has been no great shakes in a courtroom. After a falling out with their publishers a year ago, Siegel & Shuster filed a super-suit for $5,000,000. Among other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications...