Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become arrogant, tired and out of touch. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was a kindly French Canadian, but ineffectual at 75. The nation began to listen to a new voice from the prairies, full of fire and Chautauqua rhetoric, John Diefenbaker, promising a fresh if vague "new vision" for Canada...
Aiming the Eye. One of the first esthetic considerations in freeway design is the question of what can be seen. Concentration intensifies with speed, and peripheral vision diminishes. The highway designer must offer the driver variety near the focal point of his attention without distracting him from the road; at throughway speed, the driver cannot afford to turn his head for more than a few seconds. The road must...
Aiming the driver's eye is important as an antidote to one of the special hazards of freeways-the "tunnel vision" that sometimes leads to hypnosis and sleep. It is also vital to give the driver some means of instinctively judging his own speed, a task that is accomplished by houses, signs and other clutter along the traditional roadside. This may be accomplished on the new freeways by angling the road for views of industrial plants, valleys, water towers, or even pieces of giant sculpture, to contrast with the "green corridor" of the countryside...
Pictures of Visions. "I'm not an abstract expressionist," Greene insists, and in his works he can find plumply rounded female forms and filamentlike masculine figures. "Some people call me a symbolist, but that alone is not a style. Painters might be the last great religious people, in the sense of having a vision. Yet if we really knew what we were painting, most of us would commit suicide." Though Greene's late oils are flamboyant with color, the dark side persists in black maws that gape open in his canvases. "There is always something terrible happening...
Benjamin E. Mays, President of Morehouse since 1940, is a man of acute social vision, deeply committed to the equalitarian goal. "It is too easily forgotten," Mays warns, "that the most important step in Negro progress is excellent education. Negroes who have attained the skills necessary to make contributions in business, government and technology, are not going to be easily denied their constitutional rights...