Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare and ingenious operation developed in Russia and China, seldom done previously in the U.S. The idea: to take one of Dougherty's salivary glands (there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then...
...introduced all sorts of courses that on the surface would make the conventional scholar wince. He set up a major in Family Studies to teach "the vision of the family and the rewards it offers to those who devote themselves to it," added B.S. degrees in merchandising, personnel, business, interior design. He started a course in Community Leadership so that his graduates would be able to serve symphonies and hospitals, added another tagged "What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes," to teach them how to handle their business problems. Women colleagues on other campuses did not always appreciate White...
...little shocker of how "this man Greville, traveller, Englishman, thirtyish, a sort of student on remittance, sitting now cooling off in his little Spanish police-cell, tried again to piece together in his hot red mind what in all strange hell had happened." He is tantalized by a fleeting vision of beauty-a girl he thinks he once loved. But as pieces of the mad mosaic drop into place, it becomes clear that he is not facing a beautiful girl but a harridan with blue-rinsed hair and "grey old teeth that licked at him with such a smile...
What is particularly amazing is this film's ability to create an authentic empathy for shallow flag-waving, and if we all know in our hearts that war is not glorious, and the Russians must know this most of all after Stalingrad, the vision of national and violent heroism still comes alive and intoxicating for the moment, even transplanted out of the culture that it speaks...
...aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose vision modern art largely rests. Less known but of no less importance was Georges Seurat, born in 1859, who made it his goal to weld science and art into a technique of dot, dab and stitch strokes that would not only challenge the glowing canvases of the impressionists but be a compendium of what was known in his day of optics, color and psychology...