Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of 1955 had a vision of life on a plateau," Riesman said, whereas the Class of 1931 was less optimistic about the future. For instance, men in '31 did not plan to marry young and have their wives support them in graduate school as the Class of 1955 did, he said...
...Vision deals with the apocalyptic explosion of a superbomb. Its ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the city, men, women and children sleep, while their "leaders and wise men" anxiously scan the heavens, "but it was too late." There is a shudder of light and, in all the raised faces, eyes melt in their sockets...
...else left but a small flame: the mountains, the fields, the city and the earth had all disappeared ... Then I saw it. still flying around the flame, and now it looked like a moth and it, too, was destroyed, and the flame died." Even in black and white, the Vision was so chilling that the studio audience sat in stunned silence when it was over. Wires and phone calls poured in, about evenly divided between praise and condemnation. Sullivan will give a repeat showing of the cartoon this week, and Distributor George K. Arthur, who brought the film...
Pusey refuted the belief that the student graduating today tended to cling to "the precious stability of his world" whereas the graduate of 1931 was blessed with "a vision of the world transformed." He said that the main difference between the 1930's and the 1950's is that the present generation recognizes that "we are in fact involved in the world," and it therefore should not be "surprising if we have become less insular...
...concluded by saying that we must "recognize the world as a place of individually" and that "this conception of the world rests finally on mature and reasoned faith." He hoped that Harvard had given its students the faith and vision necessary to keep in sight "a world capable of transformation...