Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane lifted into the darkness, bound for disaster. Just beyond the field's edge, the right wing dipped; men on the ground saw its green starboard light go down slowly, then sharply, had a swift vision of the pilots fighting for control over what seemed a power failure. Cocoa was gone; its right wing dug into the ground as its uplifted left wing snapped into high tension wires strung 70 ft. above the ground. About 45 seconds after the big aircraft had begun rolling, it skittered through fields, bounced across the Massachusetts Turnpike, exploded with a shattering roar...
...General's March. Malraux's vision of victory was one calculated to appeal to millions of Frenchmen. But its details evoked black anger among the diehard European ultras of Algeria, determined to maintain their privileged position though the heavens fall. This week, accompanied by Socialist ex-Premier Guy Mollet, the Cabinet minister most hated by the ultras, De Gaulle staked his future-and that of France-on another dramatic trip to Algiers...
...knows the reason. First, he points out in his forthcoming book, Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre, "impressionism has not yet become part of history. It is still a living legend." Second, at a time when France is sore beset on all sides, "impressionism gave back to us the vision of the days when life was agreeable, back in the 19th century, when Man, as always when his soul is at peace, paid court to Nature...
...basic aspirations, says Maritain, the U.S. is a deeply spiritual country. He points out that the American's very urge to create wealth is tied up with his vision of a better life for all (Maritain believes that the U.S. has gone beyond either capitalism or socialism to "economic humanism"). Says he: "Genuine spirituals love America. Her worst enemies are pseudo-spirituals." Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood...
Always Ségur keeps before his eye the vision of the Grande Armée as a sort of international brigade marching to liberate (among others) the Poles from an Asiatic despotism. It was indeed not a French national force but a great group of armies-half a million men from 17 nations...