Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something of value will come in due time, no doubt, from the discussion of the Philippine question but it is a matter that requires vision and understanding and some knowledge of the subject...
...story is the usual merry epic of a Fairbanks production. It begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful...
...paintings that won no awards, there were many beneath which continuously gathered puzzled or admiring faces. Zuloaga, Spanish historian of portraiture, had done "The Hermit," an old man whose great serious eyes were bent downward upon a melancholy vision of glory. There was the cold ruin of "Winter in Artois" by D. Y. Cameron of England. For a whole afternoon one man peered at the blurred enchantment of "Pasture," shadowy trees and pale waving hills, by Rudolph Kremlicka, a Czechoslovakian...
Vice President Charles Cason of the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan was University of Virginia's businessman speaker last week. He waited for the restless students to quiet down, then said: "The real responsible leaders in Wall Street today are big men- men of brains, men of vision, men of honor. There are scrubs, too, to be sure, for they break into every place. They create much of the public misunderstanding and criticism of Wall Street. But the scrubs do not run Wall Street any more than they dominate this beautiful university of culture...
...young goats, but rather from their unquenchable instinct to play and frolic; just as the eagle is accepted as an American emblem, not because of the fact that it is a bird of prey, but rather because of its admirable characteristics, such as strength, size, and keenness of vision...