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Word: visions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild nowhere land, with a hero never emasculated by romance, a vision of death, or whole-hog brutality, it doesn't seem incredible. In fact, it's rather nice...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: A Fistful of Dollars | 3/7/1967 | See Source »

...Place for Us" by John Allman traces the movement of the poet's mind as it leaps back and forth between an immediate situation and an ominous vision. As he sits in a restaurant the poet embarks on unpredictable imaginative flights which confuse him and embarrass the girl sitting next to him. By placing the real and the imagined events side-by-side, Allman manages to capture the suddenness of the mental fluctuations wthout imitating their incoherence: I order coffee...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: The Island | 3/7/1967 | See Source »

...bring its wonderful vision to reality? How can Harvard begin the reorientation of its students toward free love the way Harrad College does in the novel? Rimmer gives us a start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUICK TAKES | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...depth and intricacy of Zeligs' treatment of Chambers contrast sharply with the superficial generalizations in which he talks of Hiss. Where Zeligs' vision of Whittaker Chambers never crosses the line from psychological commodity to human being, his appreciation of Alger Hiss stops well short of analysis...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: THE STRANGE CASE GROWS STRANGER | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...someone as passionately devoted to a cause as was Chambers to Communism cannot readily resign himself to futility. Whittaker Chambers had made many sacrifices for utopia and could not bring himself to abandon the vision. So he about-faced his ideals to the realm of practically. Eventually he utilized his past connection to Communism as a vehicle for his own--as well as the country's--success and glorification...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: THE STRANGE CASE GROWS STRANGER | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

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