Word: vision
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...commentary on Disney's tomorrowland [SPECTATOR, May 25], Bruce Handy recalled Walt Disney's vision of a TWA rocket to the moon and said that even if TWA did fly to the moon, no one would go because the service wouldn't be very good. Handy obviously hasn't flown TWA lately. In May we won the J.D. Power & Associates award as the No. 1 domestic airline for customer satisfaction for flights over 500 miles. This isn't just an industry-insider accolade; it comes from our regular customers. We're sure that anyone who wants to take the longest...
...arrogant opponent," the fact that it was celebrated on the streets by hundreds of thousands of men and women mixing freely represented a challenge to Khamenei. "Getting people onto the street to celebrate something as simple as a soccer match is a challenge to the conservatives' austere vision," says MacLeod. "Iran's involvement in the World Cup epitomizes what Khatami stands for and what they fear -- a more relaxed society participating in the international community...
...frustrations that come along with a tremendous amount of injustices that often come your way." She was just warming up to the subject, when into her booth came Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy's youngest son and editor of Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. In a breathtaking display of obtuseness, he said to Rice, "Max Kennedy. I was on that boat, the Monkey Business, for about 10 days. Wasn't it the most fun boat you've ever been on?" Small pause. "No," replied a dignified Rice, taking the high road, turning...
...implementation of the Clinton Administration's vision of universally wired schools and libraries as carried out by the Federal Communications Commission is turning into a nightmare for small businesses and residential consumers, who will, after all, foot the bill for the e-rate program. The FCC has created an unnecessary and costly bureaucracy to administer a seemingly unlimited federal entitlement. While the FCC attempts to hide the true cost of the discounted Internet hookups, the intended beneficiaries of the e-rate program are told to wait to hear if their applications for funding have been approved. This program comes...
...only fulfilled his ideals, they also worked. Alas, his creations were decorative and quixotic in an era that preferred the planar and the abstract. If Wright's organic architecture did not spawn a movement, it is not because it was wrong-headed or impractical. It is because his vision was so personal, so deeply inhabited by him, that without him it had no breath...