Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis E. Townsend's 13-year-old vision of pie-in-the-sky was back again, as plain as mother's lemon meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America. Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress...
...eager applicant wrote that a vision of radio's late Bessie Beatty visited her while she was having her hair dried in a beauty parlor, told her that she was the choice...
...East are still gripped by the cold, hunger, and stagnation which breed vice, crime, and revolution; but they are loosed from the maniac-driven war chariot of the Axis, and they look to a future, far from untroubled yet tempered by the hope for better days. The vision of One World has faded, and its place been taken by the fact of two worlds--divided ideologically and politically. Yet much of this division is due to lack of knowledge (a condition which can be rectified) and to a simple and natural resistance to the impact of new ideas and institutions...
...amazing and wonderful that even the imagination hesitates to reach for it, these gentlemen serve as a reminder that the social sciences, human and international relations, are lagging far, far behind the advance of physical science. However, too much pessimism, like too much optimism, destroys the energy and vision that will be required to make the future more than a magnified image of the past. President Conant's "tough minded idealists" embody precisely the qualities that are required--a realization of the world's flaws and faults coupled with a seal to eliminate them, and build a world that...
...Vision Across the Centuries. Chen Li-fu is not much in the news these days. It is not up to him to win the civil war, block the inflation or get reconstruction going. He has set himself the less immediate but greater task of a chih-k'o, or marriage broker, between two great civilizations-one based on the culture of Confucius, the other on the technology of the West. His activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek...