Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, it seems that a black sheep of the noble family of D'Ascoyne, born in humble surroundings, but brought up with the vision of the high state he descended from constantly before him, makes up his mind to revenge himself and his mother for the high-handedness of their treatment by doing in all the members in the succession to his dukedom. And all this is brought to pass with the typical Guinness finesse. He plays all the deceased members of the family, as well as the intrepid hero. Most wonderful for its charitable satire is his portrayal...
...watercolor. The general's foundling son may just be the latest in a long Gilbertian line; but the Jostling father, the middle-aged satyr with his subaltern dreams, who finds it harder to grow older because he has never really grown up, is part of a sharper comic vision. The figure of the general suggests that there would be much less war between men and women were there not so often war in one and the same breast between...
...Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from the mountain site of the sacrifice, and to her amazement finds Psyche luminously alive. Through Psyche's newly gained mystical vision, Orual is given a glimpse of paradise, but rejects it as an insane mirage. By her lack of unquestioning faith, Orual condemns herself and Psyche to long years of purgatorial labors...
...eyes." By the time a doctor arrived, Griffin could make out the color of his blue suit and read a prescription blank. Near shock from the experience, Griffin was put on heavy doses of sedatives, given "cylinder glasses" to help pull his eye muscles back to useful strength. His vision. Griffin estimated, was about...
...illustrate the full meaning of these statistics, Dr. Ingalls submitted a picture of a boy whose mother had German measles during pregnancy. The boy was "fortunate," said Dr. Ingalls, to have escaped "the worst possible consequences." His poor vision has been largely corrected by glasses; his malformed jaw is being straightened by braces (though he will always have tooth defects) ; he has a hearing aid to overcome deafness; and the scrambling of his most vital blood vessels has been fixed by a "blue-baby" operation...