Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language of the heart, not the tortured cliches of amateur psychologizing. With love and 20-20 vision, Author Sourian has made the season's most appealing U.S. fiction debut...
Finally, the atom's very shape and nature was at once elucidated and complicated by Rutherford's experiments and Bohr's subsequent theory of the hydrogen atom. The idea of agitated orbital states, defined in integral multiples of Planck's constant seriously contradicted the vision of classical mechanics
...sham he felt in Western Society led to, "Self. Self. One must rescue that sanity. Truth, duty--are insanity." And again, from the mouth of one of his characters, "Expect nothing out of my mouth, therefore, that has a pleasant sound. Look for nothing but descriptions out of a vision of a person who has given up hoping for Man, who is scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so much the contrary...
...watery fluid inside the eyeball, which ''backs up" because it gets into the eye in normal amounts but cannot drain out fast enough through narrowed or diseased channels. It usually begins painlessly, and in such cases the first sign of its onset is the loss of side vision. Said Dr. Horsley: "The unsuspecting victim is sometimes almost completely blind before he realizes his visual loss. It is heartbreaking to have to tell these patients that they will never be able to regain the sight they have lost, and may even lose what little vision they have left because...
...revealed that $250,000, allotted last year, has not been spent. The appropriation had been designed to pay for a new pass-port-making machine which, unfortunately, has not yet been invented. We commend the Secretary for his candor in revealing the surplus and for his vision in providing opportunities for budding inventors. As it stands now, however, the pass-ports will probably just have to be turned out the old way, so that our diplomats can have their recreation and the Suez can have its users...