Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a job in Germany's famed Bauhaus at Weimar, taught such subjects as "construction," "texture," and photography (which included the technique of making "photograms" without benefit of camera). His book, The New Vision* is a definitive work on the Bauhaus which, besides experimenting with geometric art, operated on the theory that artists should learn how to use 20th-century machines and materials to design useful and beautiful things for mass production...
Life with Baby (MARCH OF TIME) attempts to explain to parents why Baby sometimes does not seem to behave like a civilized human being. Based largely on pictures shot through a so-called "one-way-vision dome" at Yale University's Clinic of Child Development (conducted by famed Dr. Arnold Gesell and staff), it shows actual examples of Baby's coming to grips with the world: at four weeks barely able to move the head, at four months gaining control of the fingers, at four years able to stick out the tongue at whoever happens to be handy...
Last week the Times glowed: "Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel of Colombia, formally opening yesterday's session, hoped that the Assembly might become 'the town meeting of the world.' . . . Let us forget the scarecrow of the 'superstate' and put this vision in its place." Said Secretary Byrnes: "We have learned from experience. ... I pledge full and wholehearted cooperation...
...great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked by Mr. Churchill...
...requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again...