Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smile of God, through the dynamic and active presence of Christians . . . have led it in its yet misshapen and scattered search. The modern world will create itself progressively when the Church, forgetting its limitations of the past, stripped of its clothing from the Middle Ages, reinvigorated by the Evangelical Vision, will have assumed it, transfigured it, unified...
Socialist leader Kurt Schumacher, Adenauer's implacable political foe, has a more dramatic vision than the Chancellor. Schumacher better understands Communist aims and tactics. His Utopian goal is a "big Europe," a continent free from the Atlantic to the Soviet border; he considers the "little Europe" envisaged by projects like the Schuman Plan a trap on the road to his larger objective. This all-or-nothing attitude makes the Socialist boss a hard man for the West's statesmen to deal with. It also cuts down Schumacher's popularity in western Germany...
Professor Richard V. Chase of Columbia, second main speaker of the evening, discussed the role of naturalistic philosophy in the study of poetry and contrasted two stereotyped images of the critic as "the man of letters" and "the man of vision and spirituality...
...Government urging, General Electric's Vice President Owen D. Young got G.E., Westinghouse, United Fruit and A.T. & T. to pool all their wireless patents and jointly organize RCA. It took over American Marconi-and Sarnoff. As RCA's chairman, Young was so impressed with Sarnoff's vision and knowledge of wireless theory and practice that he made him general manager...
...Some of my best friends are children," says Jerome David Salinger, 32. "In fact, all of my best friends are children." And Salinger has written short stories about his best friends with love, brilliance and 20-20 vision. In his tough-tender first novel, The Catcher in the Rye (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice), he charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel, and deals out some of the most acidly humorous deadpan satire since the late great Ring Lardner...