Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony a sweating aide lugged the pens around in a market basket. For the throngs of Congressmen, Governors, mayors, foreign ambassadors and civil servants who turned out for the various ceremonies, the President also had a thesaurus of superlatives for each new law and ever more dazzling visions of the Great Society. The Best. At the National Institutes of Health in suburban Bethesda, Md., where he signed a bill authorizing a $280 million program of medical research, Johnson quoted from the Bible (Acts 8: 5-7) on curing the palsied and the lame, promised that "this bill will accomplish...
...write that Johnson is "so possessed by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him." Is this the much lauded Great Society? What will be left of individual responsibility and initiative? What is left for man to work for if the Federal Government provides shelter, education, health services and retirement benefits...
...broods a character in André Malraux's Man's Fate, undoubtedly reflecting the author's own vision in the 1920s when he spent two years in Canton as propaganda commissar for the Kuomintang, which was then an alliance that included the Communists. Last week, for the first time in 40 years, Malraux was back in China as guest of the Red leaders who achieved the revolution Malraux worked for as a young man. Too individualistic ever to join the party, Malraux's own disillusion with Communism came with the Nazi-Soviet pact...
...political city, Mrs. Dixon deals largely in political predictions. Her most notorious triumph was the prediction of President Kennedy's death. As she recalls it, she was kneeling one day in 1952 before a statue of the Virgin Mary, when she saw the numerals 1960 form above a vision of the White House. Then a sinister cloud oozed out from the numbers, "dripped down like chocolate frosting on a cake," and spattered a ghostly, blue-eyed young man who had a shock of brown hair. Putting cake and cloud together, she told an interviewer from Parade magazine...
This is what the reader sees at the outset through the author's acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer...