Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to meet a considerably wider assortment. Still, I continued to assume, come the revolution, that I would leap forth-with into the ranks of Harvard's insurgents, whoever they might be. And I continued to assume as much through the three years that intervened between the vision and the event. So it was not until it-happened-here that I learned any different...
...Cliffie who had been lost in her own eyes found a sharer in a whole new vision. "The day I got back," she remembered. "I walked down to the Yard and sat on the steps of Widener. It was the first warm day in such a long time. There was a boy sitting near me dressed in corduroys. He had a wise old face and the kind of arm you knew-well, you knew could cradle the head of a beloved as well as fill out income tax forms. We started talking...
...search. Assuming that Pike would have sought refuge from the sun, the searchers peered into countless caves along the canyon walls. Philadelphia Seer Arthur Ford, the medium through whom Pike once claimed he had contacted his dead son, called Diane Pike in Jerusalem to tell her he had a vision of her husband, "alive but sick," in a cave not far from where she had left him. But the police insisted that they had already searched all the caves in the vicinity...
That past is enjoying a revival. While Stalin used the vision of Mother Russia to inspire patriotism and encourage resistance during World War II, Russia's present leaders have encouraged it to open up the way for a renewed appreciation of Russia's past glories. During the summer, to the delight of Russian and foreign tourists alike, many of the old wooden churches and onion-domed cathedrals that dot the Soviet countryside were opened to the public. The result was an artistic revelation...
...minute excursion across the surreal landscape of his boundless imagination. Never centers on a washed-up Shakespearean actor named Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp) who has come to Rome to star in "the first Catholic Western." He is hounded by his own self-contempt and haunted by a vision of a corrupt cupid from hell, a devil in crinoline (Marina Yaru), who appears before him bouncing a large and somehow ominous white ball. At the end, Toby terminates his pilgrimage and turns himself into a final sacrifice to Satan...