Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mobile military machine" to back up this course of action. Whether he feels Universal Military Training and Selective Service necessary is undisclosed. Specific declarations may have to wait until closer to convention-time. For the moment the Justice has set forth a liberal credo that is remarkable in vision and courage...
Because Picasso's vision was predominantly sculptural, his new rules had mostly to do with form. He thought it might be interesting to break up the forms in nature and rearrange them on canvas-cubism. Matisse was most excited by colors; he did roughly the same kaleidoscope stunt with them-and took art back to the days of the Byzantines and medieval monks, whose flat, glowing illuminations symbolized instead of trying to counterfeit reality...
...official explanation has yet been issued for the mighty miscalculation of either the bank or the Law School. Rumors say that an anonymous clerk has always wanted to be a lawyer. Others note that New Brunswick has never been famous for 20-20 vision...
...Tibet. Graves has done little to dispel that illusion. When his temperas were first shown and acclaimed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), critics and writers excitedly wired Seattle for information about him. The tall, cadaverous recluse sent them a characteristic aphorism instead. "Vision," he wired back, "grows in the meadows of obscurity...
...appear daring, he says, to offer a vision of a constructive social order at "the moment of Europe's greatest agony" (the book was written during the war). "But the more cruel the world, the greater the temptation to escape it in thought, and it is disquieting to consider the intensity of optimism which, failing the proper catharsis of constructive action, may shortly be necessary to deaden the pains that are now scarring the memory of the race...