Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe Mr. Rhodes hoped that he would help produce a generation of people around the world committed to personal excellence and public service, and I hope that I will indeed be able to fulfill that vision," said Drayton...
...vision for HSA would be that it provide a full management experience to students which includes both functional experience and innovation. Unfortunately under current management that type of innovation isn't encouraged," says Proudfit, who now works for Proctor and Gamble in Cincinatti...
...fulfill them. That may partly explain his stubborn reluctance to offer a realistic plan to stanch the deficit; he was defeated for re-election as Massachusetts Governor in 1978 largely because he raised taxes. For all Dukakis' unquestioned managerial competence, there are also hints that the blandness of his vision reflects a certain constriction of the soul. When he speaks of his passions (housing, education), he seems to be reciting them by rote. Dukakis has access to leading academic thinkers, yet he still repeats many of the same cliches with which he began, especially in his gooey rule...
...phrase of Critic Robert Brustein, as a "melodramatic conflict between a despoiler and $ his victims." The purported despoiler is Lopakhin, an upstart peasant turned real estate developer who plans to raze the family's mansion and orchard to create a cottage camp for vacationers. In place of this tragic vision of culture under attack, some Soviet productions have hailed Lopakhin as a visionary forerunner of the people's state. Either way, the play becomes didactic, and its undeniably comic moments work at the expense of its humanity...
...Rosenthal's brilliant editing of Offenbach, Baryshnikov knew what he did not want. "I was certain that I didn't want the heavy Maxim's look with the black stockings for the cancan girls. I wanted something light and funny and young." Both men wanted to create their own vision of fin-de-siecle Paris...