Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrase serves no apparent purpose in the story. I cannot resist the conclusion that Kozol is playing games with himself. And yet, discovering that the story was enthusiastically received by Professor MacLeish's writing course, I am also tempted to conclude that the whole dream is but a reflected vision of an English Sa meeting...
...This made him nervous, since he was unable to see what was happening on his blind side-his Borgia-minded dinner guests, for instance, might easily drop some poison in his soup. So he had a surgeon cut a notch in his nose for good peripheral vision. This incident is used by Sir Harold Delf Gillies, Britain's famed and famously light-hearted plastic surgeon, to illustrate the infinite challenges to the imagination that are found in his difficult surgical specialty. A massive new study now tells how Sir Harold and his colleagues treat human flesh...
...last word has not been heard from the Algerian revolution committee, which numbers 34 members, but lacks anyone with the vision or the experience of Bourguiba or the Sultan. Undaunted, Bourguiba returned home from Morocco proclaiming: "We will have something to show in a few weeks, I hope. It's a matter of breaking down the wall of distrust...
...publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 70, and Avia-tionabob Howard Hughes, 51, $350 million each. No. 5: Texas Oilman Clint ("After the first hundred million, what the heck?") Murchison, 62, $300 million. Tied for No. 6: Pittsburgh's far-visioned Banking Heir Paul Mellon, 49, St. Louis's fun-loving Brewer (Budweiser) August A. ("Gussie") Busch. Jr., 58, and money-pouring Philanthropist John Davison Rockefeller III, 51. In the No. 7 spot and tenth richest: the Coca-Cola Co.'s Director Robert Winthrop Woodruff, 67. What have they in common besides wherewithal? As Writer...
...serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...