Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vision faded. Instead of the Stadium, grieved. Vag sitting in front of the new, giant two-foot screen. Vag drinking a glass of the sponsor's beer. Young Vag reading a comic book in the near-dark, asking Vag to turn it off, or get a better show. Vag watching Hopalong...
...three successive days, Oct. 30, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 1950, said the Cardinal, the miraculous vision of Fátima was repeated for Pope Pius XII: "The Holy Father turned his gaze from the Vatican gardens toward the sun, and there was renewed for his eyes the miracle of this valley." Nov. 1 was the day the Pope proclaimed the dogma of the bodily ascension of the Virgin Mary into Heaven...
...with Shaw is that he was telling more than a story. One of the play's great virtues is that Shaw looked beyond the pathos and heroism of its events to the magnitude of its issues. He saw Joan, disobeying the church to follow her voices and her vision, as one who, like Luther, could not do otherwise. He saw, too, that in so acting, Joan, like Luther, was no longer Catholic but Protestant. And as her Protestantism is a menace to the church, so her nationalism, her urging allegiance not to a class but a country...
...Boston Committee's candidates and Mayor Hynes now face the test of the final election November 6. But Bostonians who would like some new hope and vision think their chances are excellent...
Lynn White started right out to change all that. To make Mills students successful housewives, he set up a major in "Family Studies," which concerned itself not only with keeping house and raising children, but with attitudes-"a vision of the family and the rewards it offers to those who devote themselves to it." He also set up a course in family law so that Mills graduates would be able to cope with the normal business and legal problems that many women face-taxes, insurance, adoption proceedings, annuities and investments...