Word: vision
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Hard as it is to take, the reason that none of the presidential candidates is . espousing a vision of America's future may be that there is no vision of America's future to be espoused. Citizen complaints suggest otherwise; if there is a general grousing point about the current 13, it is that much of the time they sound like tinkers or social science teachers, including candidates like Paul Simon and Pat Robertson from whom, for quite different reasons, the public might expect the expression of some grand comprehensive picture of national prospects. But, in fact, by speaking practically...
...omission of a sweeping vision on the disinclinations of this particular batch of candidates, but the whole expectation of a national vision may be misplaced, as Charles Krauthammer suggested in a recent column, and it is worth considering why. Of use in certain industries is the phrase "mature product," customarily employed by a realist to deflate an optimist. The optimist will say that such-and-such commodity, although long on the market with a steady rate of buyers, still has a growth capacity in the millions. The realist will counter that the commodity is in fact a "mature product...
...America in 1988 a mature product? That is: Has it reached certain stations of progress to which dreamy visions are simply inapplicable? I am far from suggesting that the country has arrived at perfection, only that its most serious problems have attained stages of growth where no single comprehensive view may intelligently embrace them. Vision these days may be the modern equivalent of the prairie; it is what an empire looks for when it wishes to recall the thrill of expansion, and yet has no place to expand...
That dream ended abruptly with a vision of my thesis evaluation, written by Gov tutors. There was only one brief comment: "You mess with us; we mess with you. No Distinction." In the background of my dream I hear Freddy laughing...
Americans, like the citizens of George Orwell's fictional world of 1984, are in danger of becoming the victims of unmonitored invasions of privacy, said Morton Bromfield. President and founder of the Wellesley Hills-based American Privacy foundation, Bromfield presented his vision of 1988-cum-1984 in a speech to 30 listeners yesterday in Sanders Theatre...