Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This schoolboy's vision of scientifically organized socialist society, based essentially on an esthetic distaste for poverty and an aristocratic contempt for "shopkeepers." was made to order for a Harrovian Brahman, and it was one of the enduring marks which Nehru bore when he returned to India in 1912. "Do what I will," he admitted years later, "I cannot get out of the habits of mind and the standards and ways of judging other countries, as well as life generally, which I acquired in school and college in England...
Peace descends only when Malachy, the Patrickstown simpleton, is vouchsafed a vision of the Virgin, and the populace turns from litigation to religion. Not, however, before the Irish, who stand "on the periphery of chaos," move into dead center and, in the book's most comic turn, infect the Sassenach with their own fey reasoning. "The bog water is rapidly rising in my brain," Butler finds, and obedient to the hypnosis that compels non-Irish reporters to write in a kind of stage Irish when describing St. Patrick's Day parades, he begins to talk in the wild...
...Arbor last week at the University of Michigan's annual Conference on Aging, the only such regular meeting in the country, 700 experts from the medical and social sciences put their heads (many greying) together to see what could be done in making Browning's vision a reality. The consensus: there must be imaginative and vast new developments on the social and economic fronts to forestall a future crisis of aged in the U.S., and the major attack on the problems of aging must be medical. That is the key to the others...
Describing the educational television program in effect at Penn. State University, Leslie P. Greenhill said that college students often prefer watching a televised class to sitting in a large lecture hall. They like the small room, the improved vision, the lack of distractions, and the fact that the camera directs their attention toward the lecturer, he said...
...toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with a savage clarity that has forced his special vision of his age on succeeding generations...