Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus-if Peking could be believed-began the first tangle between American and Chinese airplanes since Korea. The outcome was predictable. "He seemed to be a pretty good pilot," said Dudley of his adversary, "but he apparently had a case of tunnel vision when he bore in on the RB-66 and never knew we were behind him. And one mistake is all you get." Dudley dropped the MIG with a heat-seeking missile up the tail pipe...
Some think this vision of purpose is insidious, while others consider it noble, or maybe Machiavellian, or perhaps altruistic, or impossible, or sensible. It may be all these things or none of them, but whatever it is, it seems to have worked well--so well, in fact, that when one thinks of graduate schools of education, Harvard's is usually the first to come to mind...
Something for everyone here. Camera-conscious film wonks, alert to Cinema History, will notice something new in this use of Cinemascope: it seems uniquely uninfluenced by Hollywood wide-screen, model of New Wave Americanophiles like Chabrol and Vadim. Bunuel's vision of provincial France seems rather an extension into modern times of the native Renoir tradition of lighting and composition...
Predictably, the festering sore of U.S. policy in Vietnam is reopened this time by Review's editor, F. A. Richman. He attacks Dean Rusk's myopic vision" and alleges that President Johnson's decision to transfer the responsibility for multi-agency foreign operations from the White House basement to the State Department Secretariat represents an "abdication of presidential perspective." It's too bad he neglects to mention that today the rigid White House perspective on foreign affairs, especially toward Vietnam, seems identical with that of the State Department. Coordination of the White House with the State Department has improved markedly...
Lacking the competence or the bravura to measure the artist, he measures the man. If henceforth a few museumgoers approach Gauguin's art with the same uncoached and undazzled vision, it is hard to see how anyone can suffer from it but those who accept blindly the larger legends...