Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes have beheld," wrote Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American tourists are discovering Jamaica and echoing Columbus. The lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...
...seven countries. First speaker was the secretary-general of the German Evangelical Church's annual Church Day, Dr. Hans-Herman Walz. The thing worth fighting for, he said, is Europe. For Europe is not merely an inheritance from the past, but "a goal which lies before us . . . a vision . . . a task." Dr. Walz doubted that men and women fight for abstract values, but he was sure that they could be persuaded to fight for the future of Europe...
...Lost Phoebe probably comes closest to expressing the essence of Dreiser's drab vision of life. An old farmer becomes convinced that his dead wife is actually lost in the woods and wanders year after year in search of her. He is granted one happy hallucination, blunders toward the apparition, and falls to his death at the foot of a cliff...
William Baziotes' Pompeii is also a sophisticated vision rather than an outpouring of feeling: he saw something like it in his mind's eye. Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome background for something, but this is not what he intended, any more than the makers of the medieval tapestries meant merely to adorn palaces. It seems highly doubtful that such art as Rothko's will some day seem as meaningful as the tapestries, yet it is possible. Such paintings...
...speeches are classics of hammy, outrageous irrelevance: "I remember some years ago when I proposed building the public baths along the Strandway, I was greeted with a chorus of recriminations from the opposition party. They had a terrifying vision: hundreds of the poor would now be able to take baths regularly! For their part, they want our poor to be like Frenchwomen. A Frenchwoman, as you know, takes a bath but twice in her life: once when she enters it, and once when she leaves it. In between times she uses talcum powder. It's a well-known fact...