Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minister, Cram was converted to Anglo-Catholicism as a young man, visualized a reunion of all Christian creeds under one church. He was so attached to the medieval way of life that nearly all his voluminous writings (My Life in Architecture, The End of Democracy) were concerned with his vision of its resurgence. His dream of the neo-medieval future included: a return of self-sufficient walled towns; a return of craftsmen's guilds; abolition of mass production; abolition of gunpowder, the printing press, the combustion engine; "return to the land"; a semi-monarchical political setup...
Said Archbishop Tavella (showing the influence of Mussolini and Franco): "It is necessary to restore Spain and Hispanidad in America. . . . We've fallen into a state of intoxication and impotence but thank God this is disappearing; the course of liberalism is wavering; clarity of vision and sense of the true course is returning...
...vision of the world, and all the wonder that would...
...know tonight, as we stand here, that the walls of this hall shut out a horrible vision of human suffering. All over the world, with every tick of the clock, hundreds of people are dying. Everywhere, as we talk, men are maiming, mutilating, burning each other and blasting each other into all eternity. Women are being buried with their babies in their arms under the ruins of their bombed homes. Whole peoples grow sunken-eyed, bare-boned, rickety-easy preys to pestilence, after famine. And with every breath we take in, some starved child breathes out its last...
Rugged, sharp-nosed Sam Ogden gave up a profitable insurance business in Elizabeth, N.J. in 1929 to move to Landgrove. With his own vision and his own hands he helped build it into a summer resort, a winter mecca for skiers. He helped improve streets and schools; in the Legislature he worked for forest and wildlife conservation. And he learned how to talk to the Vermont people...