Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disease. His show of 43 ink drawings and watercolors at Washington's Pan American Union caused one old lady to ask: "How can you be so young and so morbid?" To this often repeated question, Cuevas replies flatly: "My interest in the dying and the insane is my vision of modern life...
Last January General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice boldly announced a new $1 billion expansion program, and predicted that G.M. would build more than 3,000,000 cars and trucks this year. Said Curtice: "No depression is in my vision." Last week, when G.M. issued its report for the second quarter, the figures proved Curtice a good prophet. Sales of $2.6 billion were 7% below record 1953, but net earnings, helped by the death of the excess-profits tax, reached $236 million, up 47% from a year ago and second highest in company history. Sales of cars and trucks from...
...spent in bed? Give reasons," one old lady crossed out the "about" and wrote: "Exactly 45 days. Reason, nine children." Adds Dr. Dunbar: "Centenarians, as contrasted with sufferers from 'diseases of old age,' appear to be a different kind of human being." Most have reasonably good vision and hearing, some are amazingly active, and many have a number of their own teeth...
...least 100 Britons are threatened with partial blindness as a result of watching the solar eclipse on June 30, reported three hospitals in Scotland. Some victims may have suffered permanent damage to the macula (the point of clearest vision at the retina's center), in the future would see well only out of the corner of the eye. Two-thirds of the reported cases were in eastern Scotland, where skies were clearest. Doctors in the U.S., where the eclipse could be seen only during early-morning hours, have so far reported only three cases of eye damage, none...
...Time robs the old lady of her hearing, dims her eyesight and addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels in prayer before a color picture of Christ, sometimes before the stuffed parrot. As she lies in bed, half-crazed, alone, and dying, Felicité's last earthly vision is of a huge parrot hovering over her head. Flaubert keeps cool about all this, but his evocative prose keens a universal dirge for the lonely, desolate humans in the world...