Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experiencing an unprecedented rise in student activism," says Brian R. Perkins, a sociology major at the University of Vermont (UVM). "Our society has been in a state of crisis in terms of interventions abroad, domestic economic crises and a crisis of vision. Students look to themselves to create the only alternatives...
...Fifth Child, Doris Lessing once again explores the political by describing the personal. This new novel focuses on how society relinquishes responsibility for outcasts and the lower classes. Lessing's story is a fairy tale with a point, and her vision of British society is stern, satiric, and bleak...
...underclass, Lessing offers a message that is both progressive and reactionary. Dorothy emerges as the hero, but she is a throwback to a time when women and the lower classes were, if anything, worse off. Lessing's depiction of the post-feminist world of the 1970s offers the vision of a grand-mother, rather than that of a young crusader. Lessing's nostalgic proposal looks backwards and is, ultimately, no proposal...
...recent years that utopian vision has gradually given way to a darker, more sinister image. According to accounts provided by former Colonia Dignidad residents, the colony, which now numbers about 350, has become a virtual prison camp under the control of its founder and leader, Paul Schafer, 66. A self-proclaimed psychologist, Schafer fled Germany in 1961 with his small flock after police launched an investigation into charges that he had sexually abused two boys...
...have reached a moment now where the ball is in [the faculty's] court..."said Robert D. Wilkins, the president of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and one of the leaders of the occupation. "They need to have a vision. They need to have a plan. They need to have a package. You do not take on any serious task without a plan...