Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the international antiques business. When these books succeed in evoking an environment or ethos, the reader can more readily forgive any lack of suspense or ingenuity in the plot. Sometimes the writer depends on heavy research or personal knowledge: Tennis Star Ilie Nastase and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Writer Frank Deford both published...
...came to the attention of TIME Co-Founder Henry Luce, who was about to embark on the publication of LIFE. Luce wanted his new magazine to make readers feel they were in the midst of settings they had formerly glimpsed from a distance. Eisenstaedt's companionable vision and his knack for the intimate view were just what was needed. In his LIFE assignments, Eisenstaedt flourished as a witness to our time, as the title of one of his books would have it: the guest at a sharecropper's home as well as at the White House, the recording angel...
UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88 showed poor judgment by joining the Owl Club, one of the all-male final clubs that were forced to sever ties with the University last year. First, Eisert's move reveals a narrow vision of the function of the Undergraduate Council and the role of its chairman. His decision is a symptom of all that is wrong with the council and with the way the community views it. Second, for the leader of the student government to identify himself with a sexist and elitist organization is an affirmation of values that we believe...
...speech at Harvard in October, Bennett outlined a simplistic and dangerous vision of higher education in which the job of universities was to impart narrow concepts of Western morality to their students. With his Dallas speech, he has gone a step further: he would also like to see college administrators actively enforce those values and seek to regulate the personal lives of their students...
...facts and reasoned analysis. But 58 years of interpretation, including three film versions, may have been wrongheaded: a crackling revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center persuasively makes the case that The Front Page is less a lark and more a socially inflamed piece of press criticism. In this vision, the reprehensible reporters peddle human interest without feeling the least flicker of humanity. They have lost, or abandoned, all spirit of reform...