Word: vision
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEVER abandoned her faith in the communist system. Often, in her speeches and in private, she talks of the need for a "counter-vision with counter-values" to replace the American dream. "When I talk about the need for the people to own the means of production," she explains, "I don't mean that each worker in a factory would own the machine he works at. It's different. It's that the profits of a company, instead of going into the pockets of the owner, come back to benefit the people who work for the company...
Actually, the voter's dilemma tends to be exaggerated by the current hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing...
Those convictions, as his novel, Los Encartelados (The Poster People), makes clear, center on the theme of democratic government for his country. And his hopes, as outlined in the book, are that a few, then hundreds and eventually thousands of Spaniards will follow in his footsteps. Eventually, so his vision goes, the streets of Spain will be jammed each Sunday by the encartelados bearing silent but effective witness to the dream of change. Initially, just as his book predicts, the public reaction in Madrid was sympathetic but skeptical. "It might work elsewhere," a student said, "but it's like...
...only Miss Oates were content to be just a modern romancer-to go all the way with her unnerved vision. Her trouble is that she seems to regard her book variously as a black-humor exercise, a parable of national sickness of heart, and, worst of all, a realistic piece of social reportage. Too cool for fantasy, too hysterical for imagination, Expensive People says too little half the time, and too much the other half...
...Mitchell spoke to an audience of about 150 people in the Leverett House dining room. "To replace the rhetoric of liberalism," she told them, "we need a counter-vision with counter-values. Today, the movement on the left offers the only hope. If it fails, if we do not find a way to give power back to people and restore dignity to black people, then there will be horrible days ahead...