Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denied that it was a summit. It was just an informal meeting of the minds, where he could exercise his charm; and it too seemed verging toward a love-in. The President was accompanied by experts with varying attitudes on arms control, men who deferred superficially to Reagan's vision of a Strategic Defense Initiative entirely benevolent, so purely defensive in nature that its secrets could be shared with the world once it was put in place. Members of his Administration nodded along, as they had at the prayer breakfast in Dallas...
That was not an easy assignment. Those around Reagan had entered his world of pretense over the preceding months. They had pretended to agree with him while working for their own goals, working often against others who were also pretending to be following Reagan's vision, each claiming to have the Reagan stamp of approval, each trying to make it work for them, while Reagan serenely believed the cover story that they were only feigning to believe...
...what meets the ear and brain is less than what meets the eye. The passages she has culled from Kafka, particularly The Metamorphosis, are familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist as a caged carnival act. Still, there are magic tricks, bursts of flame, ritual burials in a stage full of soil and stark tableaux echoing, or worthy of, Dali and Magritte. The words fade quickly. The images linger. W.A.H...
...leave Harvard tomorrow with the feeling that outstanding con- tributions made in this university to thedemocratic vision encourage the development of allof our people," the governor concluded...
...doom," telling us we could painlessly remake history and return to an earlier, idyllic time. That time, though, never existed. Reagan, like most Americans, was nurtured on the largesse of big government. He owes his careers in movies and politics to great corporation and manipulative political managers. His vision of "morning in America" was never more than our dream of a past that never was. Its time to wake up and get on with...