Word: vision
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...rising in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. ! Yet he still faces formidable obstacles in the 1988 presidential campaign. He has been known as an acerbic Washington insider, a pragmatic, conservative man for all sessions during his 18 years in the Senate. Can such a candidate project a vision of the country's future that will satisfy both the distrustful right-wing ideologues he needs to win the Republican nomination and the more moderate voters whose support could sweep him into the White House...
...only thing that these four communities have in common is what motivated their creation. Each was set up as a new utopia, a new city on a hill for the people who had the vision to build them. In no other nation, FitzGerald writes, have people so confidently felt that "they can start all over again from scratch...that they can reinvent themselves." This attitude, she argues, is quintisentially American...
Before that time, the FDO needs to come up with a concrete vision of what they expect prefects to do beyond providing friendship. Otherwise, prefects will continue to be frustrated and feel (correctly) that they are just wasting time...
Sowell claims to be describing both conflicting visions impartially, to be making no judgment on their comparative merits, but somehow the quasi-liberal unconstrained vision often seems to lead to positions that few liberals would accept as their own. Sowell cites John Stuart Mill's admiration for "the most cultivated intellects" to suggest that the unconstrained are elitist, and hypocrites as well. "It is consistent for the unconstrained vision to promote equalitarian ends by unequalitarian means," he writes, "given the great differences between those whom Mill called 'the wisest and best' and those who have not yet reached that intellectual...
...though he dislikes such labels) much admired in the Reagan Administration & and elsewhere. He has won considerable attention for his attacks on affirmative action, school busing and various black leaders. While he likes to ascribe the unconstrained viewpoint to unauthoritative authorities like Ramsey Clark, Sowell often attributes the constrained vision to masters like Oliver Wendell Holmes, who provides some splendid dicta. For example, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." And, "Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." And, "It is desirable...