Word: vision
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis live peacefully with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Moshe Dayan believes they can. Shortly after he resigned as Israel's Foreign Minister, Dayan talked with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy about his private vision of the future relationship...
Activist in some areas untouched by the Warren Court, like sex discrimination, it has continued to press for school desegregation, tried to strike a balance on reverse discrimination and retrenched slightly on criminal rights. It clearly does not have the moral vision of the Warren Court, particularly in its attitude toward the havenots, but it certainly is not the conservative bastion that Nixon hoped to create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role...
...family in the inner city. His father is a truck driver who quit school after the ninth grade. As mayor, Kucinich forced business leaders to meet with him at Tony's Diner. He hopes to unite blacks and white ethnics under his banner of "urban populism." It is this vision of "the coalition of the future" that makes Kucinich unique...
...Coolidge once said, business, then who needs intellectuals? Breaking Ranks in Norman Podhoretz' attempt to answer this question. In a world where the exclusive concerns of professional politicians are "the distribution of patronage and the administration of the going system," intellectuals, Podhoretz affirms, bear the responsibility of providing us vision and direction. Breaking Ranks is his unabashed celebration of intellectualism...
While by the early '60's Podhoretz still admired the humane values and vision that Students for a Democratic Society and other radical groups continued to promulgate, he had begun to believe that their appraisal of American cultural decay was exaggerated, unwarranted and dangerous. Podhoretz' complete divorce from radicalism came after the riots at Berkeley in 1968. He decided that violence had been done to "language and ideas." The rational arguments of earlier radicalism had been replaced by "direct action" based on the assumption that "there was no longer anything to argue about except the choice of means...