Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least subjective of poets, Kipling was by no means detached. His first all-absorbing aim was to preach Empire and the men who extended and sustained it. Later on "he is more concerned with the problem of the soundness of the core of empire." At that same time "his vision takes a larger view, and he sees the Roman Empire and the place of England...
...Puritan-Protestant Idea. The fact that Beard was no crude materialist has been apparent for years to those who have read his occasional magazine articles. Beard's vision of America has always been rooted in a moral idea, the Puritan-Protestant idea of "take care of your family and lend a helping hand to those who deserve...
...soon as the task of liberation permits, there must be free elections. I do not doubt that Italians will vote for a progressive republic." Carlo Sforza had an old man's vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...
Singular Satisfaction. In London, the British Admiralty issued a ruling entitled "Monocular Vision," announcing that so long as one's duties were not interfered with, it would be quite all right for any naval rating (seaman) to wear a monocle...
...tragic elements essential to the human lot to contend with; time and death and bereavement and unrequited affection and dissatisfaction with themselves. But they have not got the elements of consolation and encouragement that ought normally to renew their hopes or restore their self-respect. They have not got vision or conviction, or the mastery of their work, or the loyalty of their household, or any form of human dignity. Even the latest Utopians, the last lingering representatives of that fated and unfortunate race, do not really promise the modern man that he shall do anything, or own anything...