Word: foresights
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...most white South Africans don't share Beckett's foresight. As a colored (mixed-race) concierge whispered to a tourist. "They've got a revolution under their noses, and don't even know...
...amplitude of intellectual riches and experience. Debts of Honour is Foot's ode to his political and literary heroes, in 14 fond chapter-biographies. Those idols range from Benjamin Disraeli and Thomas Paine to the Duchess of Marlborough and Jonathan Swift, His heroes usually share one trait: a determined foresight. As he writes in his profile of Disraeli, "the good Tory": "If anything is really to be done in the world, it must be done by visionaries; men who see the future, and make the future because they...
With plenty of bravado but little foresight, the News tried to navigate the shoals that had caused evening papers elsewhere to founder: distribution delays in city traffic snarls and competition from suburban newspapers and local television news. Those hurdles proved insurmountable. Tonight received a huge injection from a $20 million News revitalization fund, but its circulation, headily projected at 300,000, finally slumped to 70,000. The News's profits gave way to a torrent of red ink: even with Tonight folded, the paper expects to lose $11 million this year. Said Publisher Robert Hunt: "We went...
...older I grow," Philosopher Sidney Hook wrote a few years ago, "the more impressed I am with the role of luck or chance in life." The world's distribution of wealth, he pointed out, depends almost as much on luck as on energy, foresight and skill. It is only the luck of the world if one is born in the country club district of Kansas City instead of the Sahel or Bangladesh. It is the sad luck of things for a Colorado oil millionaire if his youngest child, by mishaps of the psyche, turns out to harbor some fetid...
...such rituals lies in the imagination of the threatened party. When you threaten someone, you rely on his foresight cooperating with his memory. Bruno Bettelheim in The Informed Heart, a study of the concentration camps, described the power that the SS used on prisoners: "Childlike feelings of helplessness were created much more effectively by the constant threat of beatings than by actual torture. During a real beating one could, for example, take pride in suffering manfully, in not giving the foreman or the guard the satisfaction of groveling before him. No such emotional protection was possible against the mere threat...