Word: visioning
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...behind the sentimentality the temper that is like to lead to the juster common-sense of the coming generations. Kindred in spirit to these articles are two translations, one of a Spanish sonnet, another of an address by Anatole France to French students. This address is a plea for vision--"Agitate and dream; and above all, oh, above all do not be too rational"; a plea for tolerance--"Be not fanatic, even with the fanaticism of acquired truth, which may react against grander truths, as yet half discovered"; a plea for universal peace--"The Rome of the Caesars attempted...
March 5.--"Vision and Some of its Illusions." Dr. W. B. Cannon...
...well, full of meaning, full of kindliness and humor, never sarcastic, but always keen. Occasionally, too, they were full of fiery wrath. This James humor has often been referred to as of Irish origin. If so, it certainly throve well on American soil. It pointed also to the wide vision of real culture and to experience with men and books, thus showing itself to be cosmopolitan or universal, rather than racial. Certainly old and young, rich and poor, foreigner and native, appreciated its great charm and penetration. Sometimes a mere trifle would call out one of these rich, explosive extravaganzas...
...dark has vision that...
...with a corpse which does not begin until the middle and stops long before the end. Otherwise it is up to the usual standard. The poem called "The Grain Elevators at Duluth" by H. B. Sheahan '09 is distinguished mainly by the inaptitude of the last stanza and the vision of wheatmills that both "loom" and are "outlined...