Word: visioning
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...literature. Practically any college student who has passed his elementary courses in English composition can sit down and describe the life around him-as he see it. And the consequence in the majority of cases is extremely uninteresting and also inaccurate. His proximity to his material makes proper vision impossible; what he sees as great pulsating problems turn out to be mere details which always clutter the collegiate scene. On the other hand that which he may dismiss as "ordinary" is likely to prove the real meat of his discourse...
...fifth, being a philosophere,-a man who has some clarity of vision does not worry. He is not dumb. Because he fails to join in the titter which floods its liquid way about the platform of learning, the Parnassus of dulness, never believe him uneducated in humor. Rather he is too well educated in humor. Four out of five get it because they lack one of two things, good taste-or good grades...
...UNFORTUNATE ? but preventable.?Clear-Vision Triplex...
...evening coolness. Somewhere an orchestra was playing softly. But all this was of minor interest to the wanderers; their interest was focused upon a white aproned individual who bore a number of tall round receptacles clinking upon a tray. He approached-and placed before each ein grosses helles'. The vision vanished, Alas, this is Boston...
...time for a hero, and while the fabulous First Century colors, passions and mysteries of the Near East are heaped in the pages like exotic scenery beside a straight white road, the story is a lean dark runner on the road, Saul of Tarsus coursing the world with his vision. It is the first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer...