Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crusade. Senator Ball called the Christian Mission "the greatest crusade since Jesus sent his twelve disciples out to preach the brotherhood of man," declared its purpose was "to remove the scales of fear and cynicism from the soul of America so that [we] may undertake confidently, with courage and vision, the building of a world order in which justice and reason, and not brute force, prevail...
...prevails among the people. One finds no unshakable faith or confidence that we and the world, once the war is won, are going to see that it does not happen again. . . ." John Foster Dulles called upon Christians to regain this faith. He said: "We have been a people of vision and self-confidence. Our founders . . . from the start conceived of their task as of worldwide import. Within a few generations there existed here an area of spiritual, intellectual and economic vigor the like of which the world had never seen...
...Then something happened. We lost our vision. . . . We lost our courage...
...strength and quickness of reflexes they more than make up in greater endurance and skill. Biologists have found that by 50 most men have slipped a little in hearing and eyesight, but individuals vary greatly: one study showed that in a group in their 50s, a quarter had keener vision than the average...
Most important in Kipling's later stories and poems is Kipling's "vision of the people of the soil. It is not a Christian vision, but it is at least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature which must be re-established if the truly Christian imagination is to be recovered by Christians. What he is trying to convey is ... not a program of agrarian reform, but a point of view unintelligible to the industrialized mind." And profoundly vitalizing that point of view are Kipling...