Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunter. To Wu's climactic moment at Lake Success, to the triumphant onrush of the Chinese Red army in Korea, the master in Peking had long dedicated himself. In a quarter-century of conspiracy and armed aggression against his own people, Mao Tse-tung has never lost his vision of the Chinese Communist movement as a prelude and vital part of the greater international Communist drive for world rule...
...kind of rogues' gallery, an awful warning against Illuminism . . ." his attitude changed through the years. Even the Roman Catholic Church, he feels, sometimes needs warming at the fires of enthusiasm. "How nearly we thought we could do without St. Francis, without St. Ignatius! Men will not live without vision; that moral we do well to carry away with us from contemplating, in so many strange forms, the record of the visionaries. If we are content with the humdrum, the secondbest, the hand-over-hand, it will not be forgiven...
...Blake's coat is too long," Grigson concludes, "and he can spare an inch or two for his now destitute forerunners." But Blake well deserves his long coat. Like a great artist, and unlike Fuseli, Mortimer and Barry, he pictured the heights with as much vision as he did the abyss...
Perry will spend his birthday quickly, receiving a few close friends. His health remains good, and Perry's excellent vision permits him to read at least 200 or 300 pages...
...Puerto Rico's revolt and the attempted assassination of President Truman, a roundup of the Holy Year in Rome, a feature on the Spanish navy. But he also gave full accounts of the war in Asia, plenty of cheesecake, an updating on television and flying saucers. Editorially, Vision promised not to "take the side of any single country . . . or of any internal group of any nation...