Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the Armenians in the vineyard country of Southern California had heard the story of Avak Hagopian, the goldsmith's apprentice of Azerbaijan. Four years ago, when Avak was 16, God had appeared in a vision before him. God had given Avak the power to cure. Letters from the old country swore it was true. With a touch of his fingers Avak cured ulcers, paralysis, cancer. He had been tried for charlatanry-and had won acquittal by curing the throbbing pain in his judge's head. He had also won as his staunchest disciple the Iranian army...
...admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...
...seeking, have kept Kafka from becoming a popular writer. Yet readers with the requisite staying power will find that in the scope of the problem to which he dedicated himself, in the depth and integrity of his discernments and in the variety of means by which he dramatized his vision in terms of everyday life (thereby giving to everyday life new implications and new dimensions), Franz Kafka is a major artist...
Watt originally entertained a vision of covering the sporting scene in his magazine but admits defeat at the hands of his co-editors. He could have found precedent to back him up in the early days of Advocate journalism when Frank P. Stearns '67, its first business manager, accompanied the Harvard nine to New York as a combination substitute and reporter...
Printemps'), . . . The divagations from Stravinsky . . . are not of creative significance." Said the entranced World-Telegram: "He [Messiaen] seems to stand before a shrine, chanting the vision he beholds ... a sort of fluttering commotion spread over the music." Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, who has labored to introduce Messiaen's music to the U.S., was slightly flummoxed. Wrote he: ". . . powerful and original music . . . it is our obligation as listeners ... to get inside [it], since [it does] not easily penetrate our customary concert psychology...