Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good one. The process that makes most of your list influential is the same one that makes people join crazy cults that promise instant family, instant society, instant salvation. There were three people on your list who have the stature and the ability to provide true moral leadership and vision to the world--Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and George Soros. Has American society unraveled to such an extent that you could not find 22 more people like them? MAYUKH K. DHAR Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
...guilty of murdering one of Imperial Stitching?s working women. Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in ?Kowloon Tong.? Theroux?s distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems reasonable to hope that his vision of the near future is unduly dyspeptic, and that fiction will be stranger than truth...
...aspects we have chosen as our themes are the impulse to create meanings for the (at first) unfamiliar panoply of American nature; the "American grain" of direct, pragmatic vision and craftsmanship; the urge to visionary expression of spiritual experience; the wish to implant grandeur in society; the move into cities and the obsession with their heroic technology; the desire to commemorate events and remember exemplary people; and the fondness for breaking (and defending) cultural molds...
...demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable as a car or TV. Compaq wanted Gateway so it could speedily add capacity to meet the new demand. But Waitt's vision of the future told him the Compaq offer wasn't worth it--not to a billionaire free spirit who values his independence...
What has happened to institutions like the Federal Bureau of Investigation [SPECIAL REPORT, April 28] that we have traditionally relied on to set the example for doing the right thing? These agencies are supposed to give us confidence in their vision and respect for their reputation of being rock solid. But now there are allegations about the FBI crime lab; President Clinton has several unresolved issues, including alleged improper White House visits and political contributions; House Speaker Newt Gingrich has admitted ethical violations. Where are the new leaders who will help restore our lost confidence? FRED STROM Rye Brook...