Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average man doesn't read a novel in order to see how many faults he can find in it, or how superior he can feel to the writer. He reads to be entertained and, incidentally, to widen his vision of the world in which he lives. If a writer takes him into the presence of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin, it would never occur to him to require legal proof that such an experience ever did happen to any one man in the course of one year...
...work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...
...believe that we have taken an enormous step backward in bringing "into reality the sisterhood of women." Either we should live up to our aims or we should make no pretenses of having them. Perhaps we have been lacking in "a clear vision of life" and "an appreciation of real merit and worth...
...poor stand in line outside, week after week, armed with snapshots of lost loved ones; Antonio takes them on at the rate of 40 a day. The poor he admits free, but Mama Costa carefully tots up the "spontaneous contributions" of the wealthier. When Anthony fails to see a vision, he gets furious, rushes out to play until he is relaxed...
Semi-Private. In Cincinnati, a housewife suffered rude disillusionment after six months of confident belief in her special "one-way vision" bathroom window...