Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More broadly the youngest (45) French Premier sums up his vision of the future thus: "What will the new social order in France be like? I laugh at those who think that Capitalism is dead. . . . The struggle for success has always been bitter, and only a few can win. . . . The younger generation seems to me to have a new vitality. This is needed if we are to get business going again. France is renewing herself...
...wrangling in their peculiar manner over the gloomy aisles. It is significant that none of the sparrows has ever been found in the Gymnasium except during the periods of inquisition. They are doubtless imported for the occasion by the sprightly overseer to tantalize the troubled multitude with a bright vision of liberty. It is all rather...
...conclusion he suggested an accurate definition of the trend of the Administration's program. "Now I think that economic security of every kind is a desirable end, well worth striving for. But what the proposers of it ought to say is something like this: 'We offer you a vision which we call security, but in order to get it you must give up many of your familiar liberties...
Such was the vision conjured up last week by a committee of technicians and scientists which President Roosevelt year ago set to studying the use and control of water in the Mississippi Valley. For chairman the President had chosen a sturdy, handsome, enthusiastic Philadelphian whom he, as Governor of New York, had put on that State's Power Authority. A topnotch consulting engineer and one-time president of the Taylor ("Scientific Management") Society, Morris Llewellyn Cooke was an old hand at broad-gauge planning through service on the War Industries Board and the Committee on the Costs of Medical...
...this: "The end of (Greek) science was not to do but to know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course of the heavens and the vision of eternal law." As he points out this ideal was as incomprehensible to the mediaeval Christian as it is to the modern Englishman or American, for whom science is power, and whose ideal hence is not unrelated to that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like...