Word: vision
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...some senses, The Oriental Renaissance betrays its own antiquity. Schwab's sprawling intertextual odyssey aims at an epic global vision reconciling East and West. He confesses, quoting Walt Whitman's "A Passage to India": "And I myself did not anticipate... that I would discover Whitman's line 'Thou roundness of the world at last accomplished.'" The irony of that world come full circle is that the term "Oriental" itself has evolved; no longer in its current use does it describe the "Oriental" of Schwab's time. Orientalism, for Schwab, mainly concerns Sanskrit studies which have since been canonized into...
...thousands of students and workers--because Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us, "Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere." We assemble on the 17th anniversary of Dr. King's death to honor his prescient insistence that American business leave South Africa and to call forth the power of his faith and vision and courage in a movement to end a policy which implicates all of us in savagery and shameful actions, a policy that spills blood in our name...
...believe that vision of sociology to be wrong and I can only hope that it does not become so narrowly exclusive that it entirely drives out the tradition represented at Harvard by people such as David Riesman and Daniel Bell, "Starr said. "I felt I was working with in this tradition at Harvard...
...Washington, there was a discernible sense of skepticism about whether a new age was dawning in East-West relations. Many analysts felt that Gorbachev, however young and personable, could ultimately prove to be a supremely talented apparatchik, but one without the breadth of vision to carry out far- reaching internal reforms or a reassessment of the Soviet Union's relations abroad. Calendar age does not necessarily equate with political outlook, nor is new necessarily better. Said one State Department official: "Gorbachev's energy will vitalize his office, so the possibility of progress is greater. But at the same time...
Anderson said he voted for wall F.Mondale in November. He said that he hopes that instead of letting special interest groups draw up its platform, the Democratic Party will come up with an "overarching vision" and then "do brokerage politics within a framework of a clear and consistent policy...