Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glaucoma can be detected cheaply and painlessly in a few seconds, but more than 500,000 Americans have the disease in an early and unrecognized form; all will suffer severe loss of vision, and each year about 4,500 are blinded...
...Constant Vision. Almost 40 years and 20 books later, Mumford's perspective has broadened, but the vision has scarcely changed: it is still Cassandra's, ominous and unheeded. Writes Mumford in The City in History: "Another century of such 'progress' may work irreparable damage upon the human race. Instead of deliberately creating an environment more effective than the ancient city, . . . our present methods would smooth out differences and reduce potentialities, to create a state of mindless unconsciousness . The polite name for this creature is 'man-in-space,' but the correct phrase...
...income, nice wife, nice kids, all of it tasting of despair and a thick tongue the morning after). But only rarely is there a true hellion to be found there. There are, rather, middleclass, earthly sufferers whose jobs are as uncertain or as unsatisfying as their moral underpinnings, their visions of goodness constantly clouded by the more intolerable vision of the sad ending that must overtake them and their neighbors...
...quiet return to the security of illusion, but all reject analysis, science, and ultimate meanings. Bergman's failures have fascinated critics, but have not yet persuaded him that shock and technique conceal the weakness of his work without making it successful. His latest shows again the distance from his vision of life accompained by brilliant handling of the cinema to a film that persuades rather than presenting an answer as revealed truth...
...wrong to blame an artist of Purdy's caliber for trying something different, I feel I am unable to do otherwise. If he is to continue as one of America's most exciting younger writers, Purdy must realize that his first novel was his best. Its vision of the world--though one-sided--is the one he depicts masterfully