Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...totally ignorant of Biblical literature . . . What they find, when they look for a first time with relatively mature minds at the Hebrew Epic, the Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they find when they look at all this for the first time is, I suggest, at least something to think about, and finally...
Another instance: a few plays earlier, Jim Joslin pitched a 30-yard pass to John Simourian, waiting in the end zone. The Yale pass defenders were caught off guard, as, indeed, they were throughout the game. One, nevertheless, succeeded in interrupting Simourian's over-the-shoulder vision, and the junior wingback dropped the ball. Again...
Dulles, giving Molotov no chance to blame the West for a failure at Geneva, chose to emphasize the points of seeming agreement ("a quite remarkable degree of parallel thinking"). "There is before us a realizable vision of security in Europe . . . provided-and of course this proviso is of the utmost importance-we can make similar progress with respect to the unification of Germany," Dulles declared. Molotov was forced to a "fallback position" that free elections would deprive East Germany's loyal citizens of the joys of Communism...
After the speechmaking, a corps of 40 uniformed guides took guests on a tour of. the labor palace. They saw a 472-seat auditorium decorated in 23-karat gold leaf and equipped for CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece...
...said Stevenson, as he began his sharp attack on the Eisenhower Administration, "we have had three years of loud talk and little action, of broken promises, of slogans, surveys, meetings, and of complacency, of hanging onto yesterday. But we Democrats have a larger vision of our country and ourselves. And we're serving notice right now that there is going to be a change...