Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely the devoted literalist, and becomes the inexplicable lifegiver, the master of a secret vision and an incommunicable speech, known only to himself and to his peers...
...foliage, done in a swiftly executed, impressionistic manner. Sargent represented nature in a style that certainly indicates that he knew what he was seeing; Hopper, however, interprets nature in a way that leads one to believe that he can understand certain things which lie beyond his immediate field of vision. In other words, Hopper is the more intelligent, consequently the better painter...
...Landis vision, however, desirable in the absolute, stands or falls on its practicability. Where is the money to come from? The Law School Dean does not say. Some have suggested a possible answer based on the fact that privately-owned boarding houses, where most graduate students now live, are making profits. The University, it is urged, should liquidate enough securities to pay for the erection of graduate Houses. Profits from rentals of rooms in these buildings would be placed into a sinking fund sufficient to repay the capital and interest. The net effect of the proposal is thus that, instead...
...themselves in a manner entirely incompatible with their obligations, and those guilty of infractions will be subjected to ruthless punishment. Every official must realize that he is there for the people and not the people there for him, and during the present difficult period bureaucratic narrow-mindedness, smallness of vision, presumptuousness and autocratic manners must cease...
France has crushed her Communists, curbed her radicals. In war she has foregone the luxury of free speech. But America is not at war. Outraged Americans must not be stampeded by the vision of an unleashed Russian juggernaut into silencing all American critics of the status quo. American radicals do not dictate the policy of the Kremlin; they should not be hung in effigy...