Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme had been handed him with the contract: "Man at the Crossroads looking with uncertainty but with Hope and High Vision to the choosing of a course leading to a New and Better Future." To Rivera, the "Crossroads" were capitalism and Communism, so he painted a mural contrasting Wall Streeters on a binge with Lenin uniting the workers. The Rockefellers said Lenin must go: Rivera thumbed his nose. In the end the Rockefellers had the fresco reduced to plaster dust...
...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...
...Harvard intellectuals who go along with the Communists have "one common altruistic dream," adds Griffin, namely that "they all share the vision of a one world utopia...
...even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while it is scrapping an old one. But he will get no encouragement from the author of The Waste Land, who has rescued his vision of culture simply to give it an impressive funeral...
...favored hangout of U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines, London's lovelies prove as deciduous as the Minsky variety, but their nudity must stand on its own without bumps or grinds. Perambulant stripping is taboo, and a prim sign in the lobby warns customers that "any additional aid to vision is not permitted." Forbidden the use of opera glasses under this rule, a seagoing burlesque fan recently did his best to provide a substitute. Navigational instruments are usually equipped with telescopes, so the sailor brought along his sextant. The Windmill management promptly sent him home...