Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that the all the people of the United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants." This declaration borders on parody with its extravagant claims. Technology...
...that Bo and Peep's doctrines were ever set in stone. In the beginning they were the two witnesses prophesied by Revelation, who would be assassinated only to rise again after three days. Living with such a vision of God's plan, Applewhite asked recruits in 1975, "Would you be willing to bear arms for this cause?" He explained that "we don't mean to kill; we mean to incite people to kill us. If they saw you carrying guns, then that would give them cause to bear arms against us. And it might come to that. It might take...
...Heaven's Gate 39 had been awaiting the cue to begin their final act. And last fall it apparently came, not in a heavenly vision but on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, a late-night talk-radio show that has become the nation's top meeting place of the reality challenged...
...funky erudition encores this year in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Little, Brown; 353 pages; $23.95), a collection of essays and highly personalized journalism. Writing about subjects as unrelated as tennis, Dostoyevsky and Caribbean cruise ships, Wallace again demonstrates powers of split-screen vision and information processing that should be measured in megabytes rather than IQ points...
...attacked Riordan for his record on racial healing and environmental issues. Meanwhile, Riordan quietly painted a picture of a rebounding L.A.: "We've restored confidence in our city, we've made our city safer, we rebuilt our economy," he said in his victory speech. Voters endorsed the mayor's vision by nearly a 2 to 1 margin; with 93 percent of the ballots counted on Wednesday, Riordan led Hayden 217,575 to 118,700 votes. While Riordan has re-energized the mayor's office, he has drawn criticism that he circumvents the democratic process. Says Willwerth: ?This mayor arrived after...