Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting clouds. All they have to do is to set their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision than the 24-ft. "dish" that has been doing Harvard's radio astronomy. If the moon were a source of 21-cm. waves, the 24-ft. telescope could not distinguish it from two other moons ranged in a line beside it. All three would share the same blur...
...Freud to champion a newer hypothesis: man. without a God. is largely governed by a strange, little-known power called the Unconscious. It was a startling, indeed a discomfiting theory (though it had been hinted at even before Oedipus confronted the Sphinx), for it asked man to alter his vision of himself and almost everything that he valued, from his religion to his mode of dress...
...measure of psychiatry's maturity as well as its penetration that religion, slowly and within stoutly defined limits, has come to accept and even to cooperate with it. Sigmund Freud, an atheist, found no place in his vision of the riddle of man for the "mass obsessional neurosis" called religion, except for its occasional help as an opiate to stifle a neurosis. For all his own scruples, he deplored society's religion-based concept of morality, saw the root of modern man's problems in the concept...
Though at first glance Turgenev's people often seem like Chekhov's, Turgenev has a rather different angle of vision and a different art. If no more wise than Chekhov, he is more wordly-wise and more ironic. Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them...
Savrola, though, has more than just curio value: it contains a boy's vision of a kind of greatness that the boy grew up to fulfill. Here is not an echo, but the beginning whispers of a voice that was to become mighty...