Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thank you for placing the article in the International section. Perhaps there, amidst the political news, rather than under Theater, Books or Religion, it will be more thoughtfully read by those decent godless people whose vision of world salvation is limited to the United Nations...
...involves standards of comparison. It is easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults...
William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...
...next-to-last page: "Rachel has been trying to get me to stop writing. But I have some more to put down. Is this the second day? The third day? I have been writing steadily. There is a kind of fog at the edges of my field of vision . . ." Author Hersey would have been well-advised to get out from behind befogged Noach's thick-lensed spectacles long before, to show his readers Warsaw seen through his own clear eyes...
White argues that the college must give women "a vision of the family and the rewards it offers." It must teach them to be able to apply themselves when the family is grown, to extend their housekeeping beyond the home-to their towns, states, and to the nation. "We must agree with the feminists that 'women are people,' " says White, "yet hold to the supplementary truth that 'people are either women or men.' " One of the first tasks of the woman's college, says he, is to educate women to be proud that they...