Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons why Henry J. Kaiser can't possibly build cargo planes, the big West Coast engineer found a sure-we'll-do-it partner. To his aid, on a 50-50 basis, came enormously wealthy, enormously successful Howard Hughes, speed flyer, technician, designer, builder, young man of vision, and a hardheaded businessman...
Center of the revolution was big, bald Engineer Henry J. Kaiser, whose motto has always been: Who can't? Kaiser had gone to Washington with a big, bold plan to build 5,000 cargo planes and lick the shipping shortage-the kind of vast, impossible vision that Americans love. At Washington's hands, the vision had suffered shabby treatment...
Asia. In the minds of such men as India's Pandit Nehru and China's Chiang Kaishek, a new vision of world power has taken form. They hope to see a bloc of Asiatic powers, freed, enlightened and working as partners with the Western powers in the suppression of wars and the rooting out of poverty. In the way of that goal is old-style Western imperialism-and Japan. China has felt the hell of Japanese armies; India may feel it at any moment. But the Chinese fight for their own destiny. Millions of Indians, despite promises...
This is right in the insouciant mood of his sponsor. Grief is sometimes inevitable at Forest Lawn, but never welcome. There "no signs of sorrow linger." This was the vision that came 25 years ago to a young engineer, Hubert Eaton, as he viewed with disfavor a debt-ridden, unprepossessing little necropolis he had been assigned to manage on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Promoter Eaton decided he would turn the 55-acre graveyard into "The Happy Cemetery." As a first step, he banned stones, substituted bronze markers laid level with the grass. Later he discarded the word cemetery...
...tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future of American art. These essays, if Miss Rourke had lived, would have been part of a culminating work which she had planned in three volumes. As last words, they lack unity, but they have charm, sense, vision...