Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unborn), playwright (Jacobowsky and the Colonel), refugee U.S. resident since 1940; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Werfel, whose Forty Days was burned by the Nazis, fled Vienna and Paris two jumps ahead of Hitler's hordes, took refuge in Lourdes, France, where he heard of the vision of the little French Catholic girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and vowed to sing "her song" if he ever escaped. It became his biggest hit, as a movie won five Academy Awards...
...hallucinations grew worse on Wednesday and Thursday, and every few minutes another man would scream of his vision and die. Not until late Thursday morning, three and a half days after the ship sank, were the men discovered-accidentally, by a plane on a routine flight. When surface ships picked them up that night, the survivors learned they had not yet been reported overdue...
...Corregidor's fall in 1942 Douglas MacArthur wrote: "Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men." Last week many of the Philippine wraiths were again flesh & blood, rescued after more than three years of Japanese prison life...
...hands. Thereupon St. Francis reappeared. He told Pierrette that she should not have washed. So she touched St. Francis again. This time she simply wiped her hands on a cloth. Henceforth, the saint told her everything she touch would become a sacred relic. After that, said Pierrette, the vision of St. Francis appeared to her about twice a week, sometimes in her home and sometimes at a rock outside the town...
...realize his vision of a country gentleman's everyday life, Trollope needed money; and his best way to make money was by making fiction out of his vision. He wrote for ten years, but it was not until the appearance of his fourth novel, The Warden, in which he first sketched the world of Barsetshire, that he earned anything from his work. His next novel...