Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while today's world may be discarding Brahmin images of Harvard, it is certainly building new ones. Often these visions are quite positive. The other day I went over to Lens Crafters to get some contact lenses. While the optician was checking my eyes with his little white light, he asked where I went to school. When I told him I went to Harvard, I immediately sensed a reaction but was surprised by what he actually said. Instead of hearing the typical "That place is expensive huh?" or the even more creative "You must be smart!" I saw his eyes...
...over their lives. We know that to a substantial degree, student status involves being constantly judged and evaluated. While evaluation and judgement are essential to maintain standards in scholarly life, some students are devastated by their application. Yet as we saw earlier, many seek more challenge and the exacting vision of scholars. Indeed one might ask whether the problems discussed in this essay would recede if the college were more clearly centered in its academic mission, and thus more different from society...
...Student Affairs issues are still the things I love most about the council," Haynes says. "But my vision of what SAC should work on was not the vision of the majority of the committee...
...aesthetic may seem almost too perfectly constructed. It is interesting to note that Angelopoulos, upon winning second prize for the film at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, stormed off immediately after recieving the award because he was so confident of the first-place quality of his film's vision...
...Since his death in 1985, she has served on the City Council, pushing for such issues delimiting the hiring practices of the schools and the police department to city residents. Now, Russell says, it's her turn to be mayor. We believe the mayor of Cambridge should provide higher vision than provincial ambition...