Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These statistics and many others are contained in the new Mission Handbook, an authoritative volume of data and analysis to be issued this month by a subunit of World Vision, a major evangelical relief agency based in Monrovia, Calif. The data show sizable increases in activity since the last Handbook, published eight years...
...homeland; I'm not ready to die for others." Donahue, meanwhile, acted as defender of the American system without jingoistic excess. When one youth claimed that all U.S. policy is dictated by the "military-industrial complex," Donahue shot back, "You have just as narrow a vision of us, if you hold that view, as you accuse us of having about...
...Fifties was at least as rotten as any other decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such nastiness. America was complacent and happy, a superpower without a rival in any sphere, and the meaning of life could be easily fit into a popular song with room for doo-wops and a chorus. What a time it was. No wonder we can't seem to get enough...
...know the punch line by now. When I took my courtside seat I discovered that though I was dressed to kill, I probably couldn't pull off the crime due to my basic lack of vision...
...Mouy was impressed at once by Lacroix, because of his "complete knowledge of the past, not only in fashion but in art and architecture." Lacroix's charter was to design two collections a year, according to his impulse and vision. No strings were attached, least of all purse strings. His first sketches to the millinery atelier caused shock and consternation. "Sometimes it is necessary to disturb people in order to push forward," he observes. Since he refines his ideas slowly and deliberately, most of today's headliners have antecedents in earlier collections...