Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depict men of privilege and potential who, out of indifference or gleeful masochism, systematically degrade everything around them, not least their own bright promise. They are apt to view their intelligence either as a burden, leading people to expect things of them, or as an outright curse, lifting their vision just enough to comprehend genius but nowhere near enough to emulate it. Well into their middle years they remain obsessed with the glories of university days, when the ethereal world of ideas opened to them, and regard everything that has come afterward as a sordid compromise...
From his first eminence in the early '50s as the rage of syndicated TV, Liberace was a vision out of a closet yet to be opened in mainstream show business. The silken singsong voice, the candelabrum, the welded dimples and fluty presence, the references to his sainted mother Frances, all made him a conversation piece, a figure of fun -- the Gorgeous George of mid-cult music. As Michael Herr observes in his new book The Big Room, "Never before, at least knowingly, had a man ever had the big steel balls to show himself like that, and on television...
...were connected by our vision," said Hall."It brought together theatrical people and poets...
Based on his success here in the state, Dukakis has become a leader in the national Democratic Party. His vision of leadership offers hope for a party struggling to find its identity. Dukakis understands and acts on the principle that Democrats must not stand against economic revitalization. He understands that you can fire up the economy without forgetting the people it is designed to serve, without forgetting that government can be used as an active tool to solve peoples' problems. Dukakis has worked for Massachusetts and he deserves your vote...
...RECENT YEARS, unprecedented overcrowding has stretched the University's ability to fufill its guarantee to provide all students with on-campus housing--a commitment essential to the vision of community which underlies the system of undergraduate houses. The problem has alsobegunto stretch the imaginations of Harvard officials, and their latest proposal hits right on the mark. That is, if it is implemented properly...