Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists, who seldom used to worry much about such things, have begun to wonder whether they have the social vision to see beyond their warheads. This week Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the nation's top scientific school, welcomed a man who might do something about that feeling. For the first time in its 81 years, M.I.T. picked as dean of stu dents not a scientist but a minister...
Candidates for the Navy program must be less than 21 years of age on July 1, 1947, and must be citizens of the United States. Rigorous physical qualifications, including 20/20 vision in each eye, are essential for acceptance...
...major issues plaguing U.N. are not susceptible of quick settlement. Lie's pragmatism serves U.N. well when, like his mother, he is merely caring for the daily needs of his cosmopolitan guests. But the world's governments and peoples will not get from Trygve Lie the vision and leadership necessary to transform U.N. from a mere Council of Ambassadors, waiting docilely for instructions from their capitals, into something resembling a world government...
...White plugs federal world government with the dazed urgency of an Esperanto salesman. He has the same high purpose, the same rosy vision, the same conviction that all it needs is a try. This collection of his slick New Yorker editorials ("they were written sometimes in anger and always in haste"), will appeal mostly to readers who clearly comprehend such a touchstone as: "Meantime we will continue to believe that although a man may have to compromise with Russia he can never compromise with truth...
Then Ernest Thompson Seton had a vision that would restore all the youth of the world to nature. He blueprinted the organization of the Boy Scouts (with whose high command he later quarreled). Almost inevitably, the life and nature worship of the Indians obsessed him more & more. There seemed no other way out of civilization's ills...