Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joining the new Government: the Russians must halt all deportations, withdraw their secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...
...flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...
...last vision of victory was fading, and in the German mind sounded the brassy strains of a Götterdämmerung, the twilight of a nation...
...What statesmanship! What vision! What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century. Stalin has made Russia great again...
...distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform in the U.S. and throughout the world...