Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole heritage of Harvard and the original vision of the college emerges in the lives of these people as we enter the 20th century," Monroe said...
...this type of planning is the exception to the rule. While politicians rarely forget voters, projects in peripheral parts of the state often seem designed to appease the people. Rarely do they show any vision or genuine commitment. For Governor William F. Weld '66 the proposed casino in New Bedford is typical...
...Olympic Games (A.C.O.G.), surveying his sweltering promised land. To the north lie the new Olympic Village dorms and the aquatic center; right below him to the west is Centennial Olympic Park, swarming with scores of road-paving, tent-erecting workers frantically engaged in the last-second realization of his vision...
...sense, Payne obviates the distinction between prophet and blowhard, for a blowhard isn't necessarily wrong, and most prophets are willing to cut corners in the service of their vision's greater glory...
...sober periods in O'Brien's adult life, The Assault on Tony's can be choppy and dramaless despite a smattering of lyrical passages. Nevertheless, Assault remains the more philosophical of the two books, as it presents a picture of addiction truer to O'Brien's grim vision. There is not the slightest possibility of salvation for Rudd and his comrades--not even a marginally redeeming love story, as in Leaving Las Vegas. Drinking themselves to death is an inevitability these men seem to accept. Behind locked doors and chained to their dwindling fifths of J&B in the midst...