Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This charming book consists of impressionistic sketches of the sprawling Asian subcontinent done in the pale pastel shades of life rather than its raw primary colors. Filtered through Author (Black Narcissus) Godden's genteel mem-sahib vision, India becomes a setting instead of a place, Hindus and Moslems become figures in a tapestry instead of people, and life moves to the lute strings of poetry instead of the purse strings of necessity. As a free versifier, Author Godden ranks somewhat below another run-of-the-pagoda poet, Emperor Hirohito...
...Brooklyn, Rabi was "always making things." After studying chemistry at Cornell (B. Chem., 1919), he got a job with a chemical firm "analyzing furniture polish and mother's milk," tried running an abortive weekly newspaper ("a nonprofit organization") and even a private banking concern. "And then came the vision." Rabi returned to graduate school "and found physics and myself...
...usual, investigators were quick to point out that there were many other reasonable explanations for the phenomena: ball lightning, the brilliance of Venus, now entering its brightest period, the breathtaking vision of the northern lights, and, with Sputniks 1 and 11 spinning aloft, the tendency of some imaginative people to go the Russians one better. Sighed the Air Force last week: in ten years, investigators have tabulated about 5,700 "sightings," accounted for all but 2% as being strictly natural, in an earthling sense...
...changed every year or two (sometimes oftener) because, as he grows, his eyeball lengthens and the out-of-focus effect gets worse. Though this early myopia usually stabilizes when growth ends, it may have become so severe that glasses could not possibly provide 20/20 or even 20/30 vision; some victims end with less than 10% of useful vision, meaning that they are technically and legally blind...
Berceo, Guillen continued, had a simple vision of the relationship of all things in "a single uninterrupted reality. His poetry manifested a belief in which the believer was to be found...