Word: visione
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...portraying the fall of Lear from king to disillusioned father, to madman, to dying, bereaved old man, Devlin combines the grandeur of the king and the weakness of the old man. He binds the magnificent curse of his miscreant daughter Generil ("Into her womb convey sterility"), and the moving vision of life in prison with Cordelia ("So we'll live and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies") into a believable picture of King Lear. He does full justice to a superhuman part...
Anybody with an ambition to write the strangest novel of 1950 will have to beat John Hawkes's first novel, The Cannibal. Written by Harvardman Hawkes at 23, The Cannibal is a dizzying surrealist vision of postwar Germany, in which, among other oddities, a monkey screams "Dark is life, dark, dark is death," a duke hacks a fox to death and invites his landlady to dine on the meat, and one-third of Germany is ruled by a solitary American...
...selecting Winston Churchill as Man of the Half-Century, TIME'S vision is matched by its viscera; for, mark you, the fanatical followers of FDR will shower you with brickbats and dead cats...
Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
...employees, kept 51% control of the company for himself. Fond of old-fashioned virtues, he rules his roost with a hand of iron, a heart of gold, and an eye on the Scriptures. His Westfield offices and the nearby Easthampton production plant are dotted with such slogans as: "The vision to see, the faith to believe, and the courage to do." Beveridge opens every business meeting with the Stanley prayer: "0 Lord . . . help me to enter into the mind of everyone who talks with...