Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pearson, and could tap the expertise resources of the country with more discretion than it has shown so far, it is not true, nevertheless, that those of the Left Wing are either blind to the possibilities of their measures, or, on the other hand, filled with the shining vision of the Kremlin as God's beacon in a benighted world. Henry Wallace's article in the Sunday Times revealed a keen, practical man quite cognizant of the alternatives before the nation, in their long-run and short-run aspects, and alive as much to the dangers of fascism...
...captured the imagination and the hearts of the world because he conformed to the illusive, universal vision of a crowned monarch. In public life he was wise, honest, and just, in private life he loved a loving wife. He could bow without condescension and kneel without servility. He was a gentleman: he was courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen...
...Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story, and Myron's whole life in 1897 to 1933 is bound up with his career...
...passing over this inadequacy in the report, the reader cannot but rejoice that Harvard's new president has definite objectives and that he is apparently ready to further them with energy and vision. During President Lowell's regime, the development of new educational methods held the center of the Harvard stage. The system of concentration and distribution, the tutorial system, and the House Plan, one by one took their places in the scheme of education. But it is men and not methods which loom largest in the mind of President Conant. "Harvard's success," he says, "will depend almost entirely...
...needs but is also conscious that the level of student expenses is a problem of the first order. Every friend of the College will earnestly hope that he will attack this problem with courage; that he will not be too greatly swayed by persons whose official position narrows their vision to the strict finances of the University budget; and that he will let it be known once and for all that the qualifications for attendance at Harvard College are intellectual and not financial...