Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOYCE GARY, by Malcolm Foster. The first full-scale biography of the late-blooming author of The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised reveals his vision of the world as a struggle between creative man and organized authority...
Powell achieved notoriety last April, when he declared in a now famous speech that immigrants have made Britons "feel like strangers in their own country" and spoke of a vision of Britain "foaming with much blood." It was the first time that Powell-or any other politician in recent British history-had made such a major issue of the delicate question of race. The results horrified moderates. Rank-and-file workingmen, normally Labor Party stalwarts, downed tools to demonstrate their support for Tory Powell. Nearly 100,000 letters poured into his office, the vast majority in hearty agreement with...
Flesh and Bone. Such a sober, even cynical analysis of man does not fit well with his image of himself as a civilized and cultured being. Yet within the past decade, this rough vision of man as a relative of the primates one step removed from the jungle has been put forward by a number of behavioral scientists working in such fields as genetics, neurophysiology and primatology. Says Anthropologist Robin Fox of Rutgers, whose specialty is the sexual conduct of man the animal: "We are only beginning to understand the implications of extending to behavior the same kind of analysis...
...greatest editor, George Horace Lorimer, insisted that "editors must be ordinary men"; and it was the values of ordinary men-cozy domesticity, a sense of humor, a belief in decency and common sense, a faith in free enterprise-that the magazine sought to express. It distilled an almost mythic vision of small-town America that many of its readers were still living and others were already nostalgic about. It made even sophisticates realize, with a pleasant pang, that they were partly Penrods at heart...
...glad to serve his country in any way possible, but hoped he'd be able to request the post of bombardier. His "Open Letter to General Hershey," to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey" was printed in Esquire this fall. Legally blind since birth, Hal had limited vision until the age of nine, when his retina was detached in a football injury and he became totally blind. When the Scarsdale public school objected to his returning to school after the accident, Hal's mother learned Braille herself and tutored Hal at home until the school would accept...