Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Driberg's own squeamishness about Rhee, Chiang, et al. and his robust digestion for Communist cruelty is an odd phenomenon of the times. We, in the U.S., have had many exponents of this political and moral double-vision and double-dealing, but thank God, few ever got elected to Congress . . . PETER S. WILKINSON Brooklyn...
Collector Carter's offer was accepted last month by the Pioneer Trust Co. of Salem, trustees of the janitor's es tate. Declared Museum Director Colt: "The perceptive journalism of a great magazine and the vision of a generous citizen combined to reaffirm my faith that great art will always call forth strong champions, who will prevail over confusion...
TURKEY became the Middle East's most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln's vision and Stalin's ruthlessness, established the Turkish Republic, ran it like a dictatorship, topped it off with a tailor-made opposition. Modern Turkey, striving to be even more modern, still needs capital, roads, teachers, more private enterprise...
...under the Fascist regime, his novel about Madrid is being cheered by emigre Spanish Republicans. So rare a distinction stems from a rare quality. In the face of dictatorship, Novelist Cela has the courage to write the truth as he sees it and the talent to transform his merciless vision of contemporary Madrid into a series of Goya-like vignettes...
...inches longer than 1953 models, will probably go into the cheaper models of the Buick and Olds lines. The other, an inch lower and five inches longer than current models, is planned for the bigger Buicks and Oldsmobiles and cheaper Cadillacs. Most G.M. cars will have wider vision with one-piece "wraparound" windshields. Cadillac, which is boosting its horsepower from 210 to 225, will offer sports models with some of the features of G.M.'s futuristic, experimental models displayed this year (wire wheels, cutaway fenders exposing the whole wheel). The industry rumor is that Buick is taking the boldest...