Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California's Turkish-born Jean Varda, 49, is a roaring abstractionist. "I can produce at terrific speed," he announces. "I am at the height of my vision. I produce like a queen bee, like a queen ant, like...
Dent lays about him right & left. He attacks the Labor Party's educational proposals for "timidities and vaguenesses," the Government a.s "pettifogging," headmasters as petty authoritarians, public (British for private) schools for monopolizing key public posts for "old boys," education officials for letting old school ties obscure their vision...
...North Africa came a sardonic, familiar voice, welcoming passers-by to the microphone: "Anybody here from out of town? Step on board, sailor. What's your name? . . . Boys, break it up and let this lovely vision come through. That's it, dear. What's your name?" New Yorkers who recalled his famed sidewalk interviews from Times Square ("Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave") recognized the voice of brassy George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy, radio buttonholer extraordinary (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). They found out last week that Private McCoy was now playing...
...then illusion, mere fantasy, mirage that plays trickery with our eyes reigning the vision of you, the famous historical, geographer, geophysicist, astronomer and Boy Scout in the guise of one so lowly...
...book The War in Abyssinia: "The Fascist Nation . . . has understood and followed the course of the war with passion and faith. [The Fascist Nation] has given to the . . . world, as never before, a vision of such endurance, of souls so ardent, of hearts so devoted alike to their country . . . to their Emperor, and to their Duce, whose hand guides them...