Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally nervous collapse. He spent the last 30 years of his life in semiseclusion in a large country house on the outskirts of Oslo, painting and refusing to sell his paintings. A few years before his nervous collapse, he painted Self-Portrait with Cigarette, which has been called "a vision of daemonic grandeur, Munch as he thought of himself as seen by the world...
...Vanished Vision. Prime Minister Macmillan assured Parliament that full inquiry would be made into the "security weaknesses" revealed by the trial. But Britain, wincing under a succession of clamorous spy cases beginning with the sale of atomic secrets by Klaus Fuchs in 1947 drew little, satisfaction from this promise. Horrified to discover that British intelligence had got onto the Lonsdale ring only by a series of accidents, the London Daily Express wondered "in the months and years before, how much vital information reached the Russians through the flagrant folly and incompetence of naval intelligence?" Mourned the Daily Mail: "The vision...
...religion. But in these early years of the Space Age, physics and metaphysics sometimes try to get into each other's act. The current issue of the magazine Analog Science Fact-Fiction, for instance, contains a 16-page attempt to prove that Old Testament Ezekiel's famed vision of the wheel may not have been a vision at all but a "careful, truthful and self-possessed" report of an earth probe by extra-terrestrial beings...
...company's Cambridge, Mass., headquarters. He devotes about half his time to research (he holds more than 200 U.S. patents), often works in the lab for days and nights on end when a project is at its vital stage. He is busy working on research into color vision, to which he has already made outstanding contributions, and he takes personal responsibility for the company's black-and-white film developments...
Taken as a case history of children warped by the self-indulgence of parents, The Watchman would seem like one of the more lurid chunks of a psychiatrist's notebook. But Grubb's debt to Freud is trifling compared with the grotesque vision of evil he has drawn from his imagination. As rape, adultery and warped fear of sex move through the book, tensions are set up. relaxed, and recharged right to the macabre ending. Sometimes Grubb's people speak and act with inspired sureness; at other times they simply deliver bombast. Few novelists overwrite so shamelessly...