Word: vision
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...star with their 1969 film Easy Rider. "As an actor Dennis stands out because of his edge, his sincerity, the honesty he conveys. But Dennis also paints. He takes pictures. He's got an extremely fine eye for life. He's a great appreciator with a great vision. And he does things...
Kennedy admits that he has no grand national vision. His premise is simple. "The truth is that hardworking families are struggling and unable to participate fully in the American dream," he says. "That's not right." Says one campaign adviser: "There's still a child's simplistic view of the world in him. He doesn't understand that the world is a place of massive grays." In Congress that may cause problems. "Joe is still volatile and combative," says a veteran of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign. Those qualities do not ease one's way through a political body where...
Ronald Reagan loves to speak of dreamers. Of Founding Fathers who dreamed of creating a free nation, of immigrants who came to America dreaming of a better life. Though he rarely says so explicitly, the President has entertained a grand vision of his own: to transform American politics. In his dream, the "Reagan revolution" that began six years ago would culminate in a massive political realignment, one that would make the Republicans the majority party and pull down the curtain on half a century of liberal government activism...
There it was again: the call, not for endless fiddling with the process and imagery, but for men and women who can harness the Democrats and unite them as an instrument of positive vision. In short, the Democrats, with their majorities in Congress and the statehouses, must put up or shut up if they intend to capture the future. Hammering at the failures of Ronald Reagan will not be enough...
...campus. He claimed that it would be "unbecoming" for the prankster to serve as a student leader on the council. But decorum is hardly a reason to invade the relationship between students and their elected representatives. Its use here as justification is a symptom of the administration's narrow vision of the purpose of student government. The Undergraduate Council's own past conduct may be partly to blame for that narrow image of its function, but student government at Harvard will never be able to effectively address the concerns of the community as long as the University acts as puppeteer...