Word: vision
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...walking in the boots of Winston Churchill and Ulysses S. Grant. Like Napoleon, he was tall enough to see a future invisible to lesser mortals. A global visionary, he wrote in a calendar unearthed by Slate magazine that on June 30, 1993, he was going to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity" and, when that was done, "define, plan and begin to organize the movement...to help people...pursue happiness." A "transformational figure" doesn't just kick back. His off-time to-do list included "diet, exercise and recreational renewal with [wife] Marianne...
...daughter died of scarlet fever a year before), his family was not destined to hang up their mourning garb quite yet. Another death was imminent. During a routine doctor's examination, Mahler was diagnosed with a fatal heart defect. Confronted with his mortality, Mahler was consoled by a new vision--immortality. His heart, his body and his memory would erode. His music, however, would not. Mahler was set to compose his legacy. His ink was his effigy; his fear of death was his muse. And the fervor that inspired him was not that of a composer, but of a missionary...
...With Ozawa at its helm, the BSO attains a balance that might seem impossible for other contemporary symphonies--a balance between high sales in tickets and high quality in programming. The process of choosing a repertoire can be as political as it is musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity. But Ozawa's long tenure offers some relief--and a certain degree of autonomy. When the spry conductor leapt onto stage, the applause he received was as breathless as for a rock star. This applause...
What Primakov seems to lack is any clear vision for Russia. He is a passionate believer in the need for a strong state and is insistent that Russia should be heard as an important voice in world affairs. Yet his handling of Russia's current economic pandemic has been slow, if not tentative. So far, strangely enough, this has not hurt him in the slightest. His popularity ratings keep going up: what Western bankers and the International Monetary Fund call distressing slowness, the Russian public views as refreshing caution...
Philosophically, the simplistic pop Hinduism that was hippie spirituality has been displaced by bright young pagans: the computer-programming, anthropologically aware polymaths who have popularized the imaginative role-playing bulletin boards (MUDs and MOOs) of cyberspace. And the popular new dropout vision is Temporary Autonomous Zones, a rugged, realistic liberation doctrine that's completely purged of hippie naivete...