Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing myopic about their business vision. Two years ago, the brothers bought one-third of the land within the city limits of New Orleans-a tract of 32,000 acres. Because nearly all the land was swamp, they paid only $300 an acre. Now they are drying out the swamp by draining off the water, eventually plan a huge development of industry, homes, highways and commercial projects. They have already recovered their original investment by taking in additional partners, and have attracted one of the world's largest and most modern coffee-processing plants, operated...
...fear finds the evidence. (Similar, too, is our censorship of the American dream, our loss of self-confidence. Once the dream knew, was sure of itself; now we convene committees on the "national purpose" to gather the words which once expressed--and are meant now to inspire--a vision. Here, again, is a case of idolatry--of placing faith in symbols rather than substance...
...connection with the House system, Mrs. Bunting wants to improve the quality of "dinner-table education" at Radcliffe. At the Cedar Hill conference this February, she requested students to describe their vision of the ideal dormitory. Second only to the cries for small living units co-ordinated along the line of the Harvard Houses were the requests for larger dining rooms and longer meal hours. Gracious living as Radcliffe now defines it has fallen from favor. Many a Faculty member shuns the Quad at mealtimes, remembering the night he sat transfixed by eight pairs of blank eyes while the girl...
...escape having some sort of tug-of-war with its surroundings. "Our bodies enter into the divans on which we sit, and the divans enter into us," explained the futurists. Motion subjected each object to minute-by-minute change: one thing always led to another, sight invariably involved sound, vision turned into emotion. All this-the total feeling of life in the modern age-was what the futurists tried to portray...
...Delacroix, a hundred years ago, had been shown the works illustrated in this volume, he would not have seen them," writes André Malraux in his introduction. "They lay outside his range of vision and, had his attention been directed to them, they would have seemed to him devoid of any esthetic value." Half a century ago, the civilization of Sumer was scarcely known; more important, the vision of even Europe's finest artists was almost entirely bound by their own tradition. It has long been Malraux's thesis that only lately has man been able to peer...