Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owing to keratoconus (conical cornea) I lost the majority of my vision at the age of 21. I now have 20/20 vision with glasses, following bilateral full-thickness corneal transplants. I will never forget those "unknown donators" who have given me this privilege...
Last month, felled by a cerebral thrombosis, Schuman rallied weakly, but remained bedridden. When news of his death was announced, messages of eulogy poured in-from Pope Paul, President Kennedy (he "combined vision with realism"), and from De Gaulle, who acknowledged "the high conscience with which he served." At week's end, with no orations (at his request), Robert Schuman's funeral service in the Metz Cathedral was attended by five former French Premiers.*Eventually his body is to lie in a special mausoleum-to be built facing eastward across the Rhine...
...later years, his youthful infatuation with the flamboyant Fauves embarrassed him as a childish excess. In 1908 Braque was drawn to fragment his vision in the manner that became known as Cubism, after seeing Picasso's panorama of naked prostitutes, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Their fractured postures impelled Braque to a further dissection of nature. He and Picasso, working together, began turning out canvases so similar that in later years they could not recall which of them had painted what. In 1912 Braque invented the paper collage, in which scraps of newsprint and ticket stubs were glued onto...
Preparing for the intelligent use of force, Joan holds judo sessions for the staff, and that about sums up her approach to her work. Dr. Stack, in contrast, is a pioneer, a man of vision. Unfortunately, he is a generation or so behind the times, and his pioneering proceeds along a well-traveled road. He has what he apparently considers a revolutionary new idea for treating borderline cases. He calls it group therapy. The doctor likes to sit in his office and tune in, by way of closed-circuit TV, on Polly Bergen, Janis Paige and other patients down...
...calculated to make the male reader feel like an involuntary voyeur, as if he had blundered into a contemporary version of the Eleusinian mysteries. Is there some kind of sex war going on? Certainly, it is made clear that the task of fitting man into Vassar's vision of perfection is hard indeed...