Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tillich, then, a University must by its very nature transcend mere secular considerations; it is an institution dedicated to matters of ultimate concern. For teachers with less of the Tillichian "vision," however, the questions of religion in education appear more controversial, for they are bound to earthly considerations of sect and creed...
However, despite outward manifestations to the contrary, we have not all ceased to care, Pusey contended. He cited the standards of the scholar--"his vision of something beyond the tawdry and broken"--as something that still continues to impress...
...doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims, plays golf, and runs...
Expatriate Beckett (he lives in France) has found a near poetic way of expressing his terrible vision, a style that is by turns irritatingly dense and craftily simple. And he states and restates his nightmare with a relentlessness that makes most writers seem uncertain of their way. Yet the vision is too ghastly to be borne in the long run, and with Watt, Author Beckett has conjured it up about as many times as most readers will be able to stand. If Godot was really Beckett's way of saying God, perhaps the only solution...
...honestly presented to the nation-will either be badly solved; or they will simply be left unsolved until they grow rancid by over-keeping and make a public stink," the Alsopian manner renders Alsopian reason repulsive. The columnists' work is clearly that of dedicated and respectable, if unattractive vision of the truth. But the tone of the pursuers, the positive arrogance of Joseph Alsop (who once stormed out of an interview which he had requested with Lewis Strauss after slamming his walking stick down on Strauss' desk and declaring "Sir, you have just wasted a half hour of my time...