Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listen to stories read from the Bible. Later on, they study the Scriptures, attend Bible classes right up to graduation. Says Mrs. Buckley: "We have to go back to the things that churches and Sunday schools used to teach my generation . . . respect for the laws of God ... a habitual vision of greatness...
...when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow. For about the next 40 years, his right eye did double duty, then it failed him; ten years ago, Thurber underwent five extremely painful operations on it for cataract and trachoma. The eye has since had one-eighth vision, not enough for a 56-year-old writer to get himself around with safety. The shins of the long, gangling (6 ft. 1½ in., 154 Ibs.) Thurber bear a mass of scars from collisions with coffee tables...
...years in surrealism. To earn a living, he made chandeliers, vases, gimcracks, bird cages and doorknobs. "At first you think [commercial work] is easy," he says, "but then you see even that is difficult." Fine art he finds an almost impossible process: "I'm not sure of my vision unless I see it on canvas or in sculpture, but as I put it down I modify my vision...
Bill for Improvements. More recently there has been another complaint about the system. In the first four months of this year, Pennsylvania Railroad accidents killed 83 people, injured another 792. (In the latest wreck, in May, in which eight were killed, the engineer was reported to have complete vision in only one eye.) All these grievances have left many Pennsylvania passengers feeling sure that the Pennsy wants to get rid of the job of carrying its 75 million passengers, devote all its efforts to moneymaking freight...
...VALLEY OF VISION (426 pp.)-Vardis Fisher-Abelard...