Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious holiday, Christmas 1945 had, at least in the secret mind of those who shared the Christian vision, a new solemnity. Well might they read with a new anguish of hope, a new resoluteness of faith, a new temper of charity, the age-old words-perhaps the most perfect ever uttered...
...itself a question. It was little to his credit that it stirred man's ultimate despair more than all the rest of his calamitous handiwork because it seemed to transfer responsibility for his fate from God to man. Presumptuous man, who in all his pryings into matter below vision and into space beyond sight had never been able to answer the first question which the Voice from the Whirlwind put to Job: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth...
...Dewey looked up from the typewritten page. As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light. He made his decision quickly, folded the letter, handed it back. Colonel Carter W. Clarke (in mufti), who had flown from Washington to Tulsa to catch up with Tom Dewey's campaign, went back, his mission uncompleted...
...encyclical of Pope Pius XI was read: "Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . ." Cried Social Credit League President Dr. Joshua N. Haldeman: "A beginning in reducing human beings to the category of livestock in a barnyard." Barrister Dorothy Greensmith saw a distressing vision: "Girls treated and released from institutions would become the prey of predatory human wolves...
...Beatific Vision. But sometimes he permits himself to outscorn the indignity of living...