Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notes about him. His The Wasted Generation, although a most popular book, to me, at least, seemed muddy in its psychology; but after a new venturing into boy life in Skippy Bedelle he seems to have sloughed off his coil of weariness and there is renewed vitality of vision in Blue Blood. He has been married four times and lives in the town of his birth in the proper season; in Stockbridge in the summer...
Last week he returned to Berlin for a holiday, after a prolonged trip through Russia. Interviewed in Berlin he made ominous reference to the idea of a German-Russian-Japanese alliance. In his mind the vision is not dead. He concluded by paying high compliment to the "broad education, culture, courage, energy" of the leaders of new Russia, and to the "noble, patriotic feeling" of the Japanese...
...President Eliot," this paper continues, "does not lose his large vision. He believes that the United States is far better governed today than she was when he started life. And while he is cautiously reticent over the growing influence of the universities in public life, his usually reflective eyes gleam with subdued delight when he recalls how this or that Harvard man has been found faithful in the administration of some high office...
...DIED TWICE?Edwin Arlington Robinson?Macmillan ($125). The narrative of Fernando Nash, a musician, is in blank verse. He died in the spirit and, having tasted the uttermost of disillusion and defeat, is 'born again?before he dies in the flesh?to such a vision of glory as "not more than once or twice, and hardly that, in a same century" will be given to another. An average between the best and the worst that Mr. Robinson can do, it is neither masterpiece nor failure. As such, it is filled with cramped or involuted obscurities. But as such...
...could be both pertinent and entertaining, interest in debating and discussion at the University gradually deadened under the crushing weight to crystallized formalism. That the Council is attempting to train a new college generation of speakers in the English parliamentarian is perhaps the best indication of renewed spirit and vision...