Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...account for and the imitators and parodists never capture. The effect of "In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels" depends on a special quality of vision. Everything in Hemingway is seen as it might be looked at by a man on the day he knew he would...
...that which we know" of World War I, the Lost Generation, the mystique of the bullfight, the Spanish Civil War. One can learn all of this without knowing Hemingway, but once having read him, one can never see these subjects again without some angle or tint of his vision. His best books exist at that rare level at which literature becomes experience...
...Irving A. Fradkin, says Humorist (and former teacher) Sam Levenson. is ''an optometrist with vision." His vision is of a community-supported college-scholarship loan plan, and the idea has spread within three years from the New England textile city of Fall River. Mass., to about 50 small towns in eleven states scattered from Rhode Island to Kansas and from Minnesota to Louisiana...
There might have been great modern "prose tragedy," argues Steiner, if contemporary playwrights had modeled themselves on Ibsen and Chekhov. The weakness of this argument is that some did, without achieving any notably tragic vision. Shaw proved that there could be a laughing Ibsen, and wrote social-uplift comedies, while someone like Odets became the subway Chekhov, oozing lower-middle-class pathos...
Zenith's most daring bid for continued growth is pay TV. Though other TV-equipment makers profess to see little future in pay TV, Zenith has spent more than $10 million perfecting its Phone-vision system, which transmits by air a jittered picture that is then decoded by a device installed in each subscriber...