Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, this wealthy and conservative politician is eager to negotiate a peace settlement with the Russians, and is convinced that trade with Communist China is vital to Japan's revival. The statistics suggest otherwise-China accounted for only about 12% of Japan's prewar trade-but the vision whets the desires of many Japanese. "I am convinced that China has no idea of trying to conquer Japan through Communist infiltration and violence," says Premier Hatoyama. "Right now I see no reason for regarding China as an enemy." Desire for Neutralism. Looking ahead, some Westerners fear a revived Japanese...
University of California neurologists considered the possibility that J.S. was suffering from hysteria, but soon had to rule that out. Then they found that J.S. had "tunnel vision," i.e., he saw only a narrow field, as though he were looking through a tube. This still did not explain the case. Doctors found a small snapshot showing him as a World War II pilot: the face was clearly recognizable and small enough to be well within his tunneled view. But J.S. could not identify himself. Said one doctor: "He seemed to have no visual image of himself to compare with...
Almost as soon as Father Roget reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists...
...corroded through the decline of love and the absence of Christian faith. Rangy in setting (New England, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Italy, Central America), aswim in erudition, semi-Joycean in language, glacial in pace, irritatingly opaque in plot and character, The Recognitions is one of those eruptions of personal vision that will be argued about without being argued away. U.S. novel writing has a strikingly fresh talent to watch, if not to cheer...
Born in New York of Alsatian parents, Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read...