Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime reminiscences...
...previous 5,000. Men in business, government, education and science itself realize that they must look at least two decades ahead just to keep abreast, must learn to survive under totally different conditions. The new futurists, as they sometimes call themselves, are well aware of past failures of vision. Soon after World War II, top U.S. scientists dismissed and derided the notion of an accurate intercontinental ballistic missile, and as late as 1956, Britain's Astronomer Royal called the prospect of space travel "utter bilge." Relying on the atom's almost limitless energy, the computer's almost...
...recent flood of forecasts, what are the futurists saying? By no means are all their predictions new, but taken together, they present a remarkable vision. Most convenient benchmark for that vision is the year 2000, a rounded and romantic date that is nearer than is generally realized-only 34 years away, it is nearly as close as the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...young artist persisted. He went to London to study the sunset Turners, which expanded his palette. He encountered Japanese prints, which banished shadows and freed him from tunnel-vision perspective. He tinkered with impressionism, dabbled in pointillism, and became the leading colorist of fauvism. Eventually, he discovered Matissism...
...must stop his ears against the voices of friends and their loutish camaraderie. He must stiffen in the embrace of the drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person of a blowsy ginned-up Irish-American aunt who is making his exodus to America possible...