Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wolf Von Eckardt, architectural critic for the Washington Post, complained that the extension would completely obliterate the soaring vision of the great dome, leave it sitting on a puffed-out base like a "wedding cake on a big buffet table." Von Eckardt noted that damaged walls have been repaired -without extension-in far older monuments such as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Despite such criticism, Congress appears taken with Stewart's idea, shortly before adjournment voted him $330,000 for detailed plans and a scale model of the "new" Capitol...
...Mancha. Cervantes had the seer's vision and the toughness of mind 40 know what was dead about his time. The age of chivalry did not realize that it was finished until it read its inspired obituary, Don Quixote. Thus it is a travesty to pretend to honor Cervantes with Man of La Mancha, a romantic operetta that resembles nothing so much as Don Quixote as it might have been written by Don Quixote...
...management consultant or the first to concentrate on data processing, but his blend of vision and personal push has made him the best-known and most debated personality in a generally anonymous field...
...girl who won't say no, blonde Sylvie is a mildly accomplished comedienne with two oddly spaced front teeth that give her a look of elfin corruption. On the screen, despite a paltry script, she twists her diminutive curves into every parent's nightmare vision of a wayward, irresistible, aggressively precocious teen...
...want to enlarge these students' vision of church life," Horvath said. "We want to show them that the church needs experts in political affairs as well as in Bible studies...