Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These agonists are the personifications of the human societies we call civilizations, in their upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
...young Germans are perhaps the greatest danger. They are restless, hopeless, see themselves and their country without a future. Many follow single-mindedly the vision of a day when they will be called to arms again by either east or west. One put it thus: "I don't care which side it will be; I'll go with either one. I see myself again, running along beside our tanks, waving my men onward, marching, fighting, advancing -eastward or westward, I don't care, but fighting in a war which will make Germany great again...
...There is a third evil. . . clericalism. The Protestant enterprise in the United States is preacher-ridden. What Protestantism speaks, the language, the voice and the meaning are clerical. What Protestantism does is planned by preachers. What Protestantism refuses to do is explained by preacher-reasons. The laity's vision, as is often alleged, may be foreshortened. But in the effort which he now must make to inch Protestantism forward, Mr. Taft will find himself more often afoul of the clergy...
...airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet and sentimental pair of nudes. In the end they emerged as a nightmare vision of two twisted and highly ambiguous beasts (see cuts for steps 1, 6 and 9). Frank Sinatra himself never changed a girl more...
...flock caught the vision...