Word: visioning
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...Wilson: " The anniversary of Armistice Day should stir us to great exaltation of spirit because of the proud recollection that it was our day, a day above those early days of that never-to-be-forgotten November which lifted the world to the high levels of vision and achievement upon which the great War for democracy and right was fought and won; although the stimulating memories of that happy time of triumph are forever marred and embittered for us by the shameful fact that when the victory was won-won, be it remembered, chiefly by the indomitable spirit and ungrudging...
...second, and to even higher flights, analyzing fancy and education, in the third, the layman is likely to feel even more at a loss. But, in his introduction, Mr. Ennis, says that the essays "are not scientific treatises; they are outlines of ideas upon which thought and vision can play, and if they succeed in stirring the imagination they will have justified their object." Without following every step of deduction and induction, the reader must nevertheless be vastly stimulated and awakened to his own abysmal ignorance; any essay which accomplishes these results is distinctly worth-while...
...enough; to attempt to say in a few words what is contained in a book of more than ordinary breadth of vision, is hopeless. Suffice it to say that here is a horizon-stretcher; a book by one who believes in the goodness of life while at the same time he sees the bad. He challenges those who have not faith, and inspires those who have. And the book cannot fail to stimulate anyone...
...acquaintance with the classics. However, Christopher Morley, both in his poetry and his prose, seems to have emerged from this period of almost adolescent fertility. He writes with a beauty that is equaled by few Americans, and, occasionally, as in Where the Blue Begins, with rare fancy and high vision. This fact is pleasing to his friends, and his friends are legion. He is one of the most friendly of human beings...
...blending of Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Indian civilizations in the great Southwest (the old Spanish province of Nueva Mexico); 2) to hold annual exhibitions in New York, Chicago and other art centers. The men are mostly progressives, but represent many tendencies and lay emphasis on distinctly personal vision...