Word: vision
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...extraordinary resources and its cosmopolitan environment. It is also indisputably true that much of the intragroup fraternizing is not generally very productive. These criticisms are entirely reasonable. There is also another aspect of this controversy which has not received adequate attention. Kilson's criticisms are rooted in a vision of politics and culture from an earlier generation of intellectuals whose political life was, unlike these "Jack and Jill" revolutionaries, learned and serious. It was a vision shaped in the shadow of eminent black scholars such as Horace Mann Bond, Oliver Cox, Rayford Logan and St. Clair Drake, Kilson is from...
...seems, prophetically accurate note, commenting that in our colleges we were witnessing "a growing mass of stupidity and ignorence." As is well known, sociologist E. Franklin Frazier also made this point repeatedly in his own work. Fifty-three years after DuBois' Howard University address, these elites' sense of vision continues to be in inverse proportion to their degree of inherited privilege...
...heart of the crisis among Blacks is the death of a sacred understanding of the world. It was this ethno-theocentric vision which provided the foundation for moral and cognitive order in our communities. We have lost a meaningful sense of the transcendent or the Holy, and the consequences have been in our judgment, utterly catastrophic. This is the essence to the growing crisis of moral and cultural authority that is engulfing our entire community. Why? There are many reasons. We shall simply outline a few which are outstanding but overlooked...
...public venture so ambitious or expensive. The Administration calls the program the Strategic Defense Initiative, the press has dubbed it Star Wars, and the hundreds of companies and universities competing to work on the project could easily rename it Star Bucks. Experts estimate that fulfilling President Reagan's vision of building an impregnable defensive shield against nuclear attack, if it is possible at all, could ultimately cost anywhere from $400 billion to $1.2 trillion. It would thus become the biggest bonanza ever for American businesses and educational institutions...
...jabs, though, are the most fun, as they make for thrilling moments of silly bickering and academic idiocy--one invited dinner guest keeps insisting "Define your terms!" His characters are appealing--when they aren't incensed suicides--no matter how Hare intends otherwise. Some stern beliefs guide his vision and Hare doesn't care to disguise them--like the perhaps blind faith in education for its own sake and the fact that, as Jean states so simply, "Life is dangerous...And sometimes there's nothing you can do." In much of his writing, Hare catches and ponders all the disturbing...