Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. The anguished chronicle of a young writer's discovery that his talent was not enough to do justice to a high vision of the world...
...Cash. Reed students get no grades until graduation; the faculty of 96 meets quarterly to review students' work and report the credit hours they deserve. Classes are small; electives are few. Science and humanities get equal stress in such ways as a senior seminar that attempts a whole vision of learning. Under a new plan, students can sail through in three years or plod through in five. They still face stiff junior-year qualifying exams, must write senior theses. Recent titles range from "Metal Ion Inhibition of Ribonuclease" to "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Instressing His Inscape...
...cars tested by Dr. Allen had bright chromium trim in the driver's held ot vision. Even small bits of brightwork, such as chromium windshield wipers or decorations on the dash, can reflect sun light and cause spots of glare. Attempts to express the space age in instrument panels end with the instruments poorly grouped. Their needles or other indicators are hard for many drivers to see Many new car models share a common feature: a hood that covers the instrument panel so that its lights will not reflect at night in a stylishly sloping windshield. Under many daytime...
Actress Mauban's show was produced by the French government's RTF (Radio-diffusion Télévision Français). In 39 quarter-hour episodes, titled Les Français Chez Vous (The French People in Your Home), the series uses mimes, comedians and chausonniers to act out idioms and grammatical structure. Actress Addams' show is the work of Hachette, the big Paris publisher that supplies every French schoolchild with books. Titled En France Comme Si Vous y Etiez (As If You Were in France), it guides the audience through 26 half-hour slices...
...ideas in the drama are plainly paranoid but they are also vivid, and in this competent translation and production they make for vivid theater of ideas. But the drama is diminished at every point to the petty scale of Sartre's vision of reality. It is true enough, even in a religious sense, that man is his life and nothing else, but it is also true that there are more things in man's life than are dreamt of in Sartre's philosophy...