Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...
...track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...inspired by ambition or conviction; their desires to accomplish something in the world are purely selfish. If you could look into the soul of every man you meet in the course of a day, no vision of a woman would be enshrined there. No woman ever penetrates to the soul of a man, despite all things said to the contrary. . . . Left in their proper relation to man women are all that is delicious, adorable, sensuous. They are, in a large sense, necessary to our physical wellbeing...
Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...
...illumination of the auditorium should be gradually reduced from the rear to the front and all light sources so modified as to prevent glare, especially those which may fall within the spectator's range of vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...