Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power to do much and the desire to do more, mediocrity everywhere was too strong. I was the giant with the feet of clay-the lot of many youths. But now, my small, small friend, look about you: there has appeared, even within your field of vision, a figure here and a figure there, a shining crest, lavish with its bounty, geniuses beneath the open sky-you and I should bid them welcome. I walk in the evening of life and, trembling, recognize myself in them; they are youth with jeweled eyes. Yet you begrudge them your recognition...
...with a composer's power of conception, a doctoral insipidity of style. In his long (674-page) chronicle he deals boldly, methodically with the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in the town of Kings Row at the turn of the century. The pattern is complete; the vision is undistinguished...
...succeeded in breaking through certain superimposed limits of expression and has gone beyond the barrier of empirical observation in a surprisingly unaffected and natural way. His mind was no hodge-podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary, his work reflects a certain kind of clear-sighted vision, a kind of vision or insight which was neither distorted nor crazy. He merely perceived the distortion and grotesqueness of all the elements which form the world; he saw an object as it existed "in itself," without the factors of perspective, or logical continuity, which after all are man-made...
...great issues to settle but whose integrity and sterling character have made them stand out more for what they were than for what they did." Such, this week, was the "definitive" guess of Biographer Fuess, 55-year-old headmaster of Andover. Specifically, he admitted that Coolidge lacked "broad vision," originality, imagination. Such admissions testify to Biographer Fuess' fairness; they do not diminish one whit his great admiration for Coolidge...
...drier to stand on than the flooded pavement. Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...