Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cloudy white atmosphere of Venus. There is water on Mars - not much, but some. Thin winds carry clouds of several types. The color of the surface changes blotchily with the seasons, as if vegetation were growing. There is a wealth of fine detail just at the threshold of vision, but even the best astronomical instruments have not been able so far to take photographs of it. Some astronomers say they see the famous "canals"; some see streaky, irregular lines; others see little that is definite. They all agree that something complex and interesting exists on Mars, but they...
...hefty Egyptian of 38 who just four years ago was an unknown infantry officer in a beaten and discredited army. Not very long ago, Western leaders (and even Israel's) saluted him as a genuine, responsible leader at last in the Middle East, a young man whose forceful vision might yet bring tranquillity where there was chaos. Today, having seized control of the world's most important waterway, he is defiantly whipping up Arab hatred to drive the Western powers from the Middle East. Said one Western expert: "We thought we were dealing with a kitten. In fact...
...calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children's tooth decay 60%, with no ill effects...
...Medoc, a newspaper, a table and a view out the window-as they might appear if refracted by a prism. The result is a much more orderly design than the eye could have seen in his drab, poorly furnished room on the Rue Ravignan, but it testifies to the vision that kept Gris painting there. In 1927, when he was only 40, Gris died of uremia. Long afterward, Picasso, studying one of Gris's paintings, said: "It's grand to see a painter who knew what he was doing...
...life of 13th century Blessed Raymund Lull, who made it his life work to convert the Moors, was a failure in almost everything he undertook, but his vision was so bright and his energy so great that he never seemed to notice the defeats and frustrations that would have submerged an ordinary man. Fifth century Daniel the Stylite lived atop a pillar near the Bos-phorus for 33 years, and, like his famed preceptor Simeon, controlled with his prestige the emperors and patriarchs in the world below...