Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight months of its existence Nelson Rockefeller's office was known around Washington chiefly for its sex appeal and the brash energy of its occupant. Visitors were decorously received by a brunette bombshell with a rippling voice, ushered into a blue-leather-decorated office by a blonde vision. There they found Mr. Rockefeller ready to listen to any scheme to promote good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen, to send all over...
...Apparently preferring to reserve this vision for customers only, M.G.M. refused to release for publication...
...asking them to imagine first their little fingers dipped in the burning lake, then their hands, arms, whole bodies. He tackled the knotty complexities of doctrine with equal vigor. Biographer Winslow, who is chairman of the English department at Goucher College, pictures him as a man with a new vision unfortunately enmeshed in obsolescent theology...
Applicants must have reached their nineteenth birthday but not their twenty-sixth on or before July 1, and if under 21 must obtain parents permission. They must also pass a physical examination which includes a 20-20 vision without glasses. All men interested should apply today at Room 108 Pierce Hall between 2 and 5 o'clock for a preliminary registration...
...spoke of Wilson's "vision splendid," of the Wilson who, "when other men sought revenge and material gain, [tried to] substitute freedom for force in the government of the world." He ended: "It is good for America that this house in which Woodrow Wilson was born will be preserved for us and for many future generations. In this valley of Virginia it will remind America that his ideals of freedom were wide enough to support democracy in all the world. He taught that democracy could not survive in isolation. We applaud his judgment and his faith...