Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released the transcript of a closed April hearing at which McNamara outlined his vision of how the press should handle military news. "Why should we tell Russia," he said, "that the Zeus [antimissile missile] developments may not be satisfactory? What we ought to be saying is that we have the most perfect anti-ICBM system that the human mind will ever devise. Instead, the public domain is already full of statements that the Zeus may not be satisfactory; that it has deficiencies. I think it is absurd to release that kind of information...
Lebrun has little use for those obsessed by technique, or for those who endlessly dissect the old masters to find some secret gimmick. "The secret of Titian," says he, "is that he was Titian." In his drawings, Lebrun aims first for speed, in order to get his whole vision down before it shreds apart in his mind. He starts with black, white and grey, which he regards as the colors of memory. When the first sketch is finished, it can be reworked indefinitely. Gradually the work takes on depth, as if it had been built up layer upon layer...
...sources of study in his favorite field. Professor Matthew A. Fitzsimons of Notre Dame says flatly that Toynbee's treatment of the U.S. "is in accurate and distorted, insufficient and indefinite." Yet most of these experts pay homage to his scope, his overall grasp, the boldness of his vision. Relatively, time has been on Toynbee's side. In 1935, reviewing the first three volumes of the Study, the Journal of Modern History sniped: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that...
...career and work are unified by one concern: to make dwellings and cities that are works of both reason and beauty. At times reason seems to give way to wild fantasy, and beauty seems to surrender to a certain harshness. But always in Corbu it is the ever-widening vision of the artist that leads and dominates the architect...
...negotiating with Masters in the hope that he may be permitted to screen it in the other Houses. Hopefully he will have success. Seeing Messrs. Nathan, Seltzer, Aaron, et al. prancing over Fresh Pond hill in the Dance of Death as the dusk of sunset closes in, is a vision...