Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Etta Louise Smith, the nightmare began shortly before Christmas 1980, when she claims to have had a vision of something white, covered by brush. A Lockheed aerospace worker in Burbank, Calif., Smith does not consider herself a psychic. Yet after she heard radio reports about Nurse Melanie Uribe, 31, who had vanished on her way to work, Smith was convinced she knew where the body could be found. She took her information to the police...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...
Others are not so sure. "He's a total enigma to me," says former Mayor Charlotte Townsend. To David Maradei, a former city council member and Townsend ally, "He's a mayor without vision. Like Reagan, he's an ideologue." Adds Sandy Swain, one of six members of the planning commission given their walking papers by the new mayor: "He's a vindictive man. You don't want to get on his hit list...
...does Dukakis, often viewed as too aloof and cerebral for national politics, have the vision to inspire Democratic voters? The son of Greek immigrants, he lacks the poetry of New York Governor Mario Cuomo. But Cuomo is not a candidate, and that leaves Dukakis as the only Northeasterner and the , only ethnic Democrat in a field further narrowed last week when Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers announced he would...
...after his landslide re-election victory last November. An initial foray into Iowa drew mixed reviews. But Dukakis, generally far more impressive in small groups than on a podium, gave a relaxed and polished performance at the New Hampshire state Democratic dinner early this month. His speech combined a vision of an entrepreneurial yet compassionate Democratic Party, pointed references to local issues like his opposition to the Seabrook nuclear power plant, and a rare evocation of his immigrant heritage...