Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest democratic leaders this country has produced-among them Lincoln, Wilson and Willkie. We believe the worst that history will be able to assay against Willkie is that he lived out of his era. And whose shame is it if the American people had not the discernment and vision and integrity to accept the One World idea until possibly a Third World War has made it in fact a One World destroyed...
Having agreed on this single point, each Senator rapidly retired to his own side of the ideological street. Bob La Follette took his stand as a hardheaded U.S. nationalist whose Midwest idealism has made him suspicious of foreign entanglements. Joe Ball, whose Midwest idealism has fired him with the vision of a warless world, pushed ahead to the farthest outpost of internationalist thought...
...became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from Auguste Rodin, who said of Maillol's little Leda: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece. . . . What an artist...
Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...
...level headed Representative Herman P. Eberharter best summed up the dying Congress' feeble handling of the problem. Said he: "These gentlemen fail to realize the magnitude of the shock that is going to occur in this country. . . . They are failing to look forward to the future with any vision. . . . They are failing to attack the problem now because it requires a little bit of courage...