Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hamstrung by "conservatism and traditionalism. . . . There is no lack of American inventive genius, no lack of engineering skill, no lack of devotion and energy [among designers and technicians], but there is a superfluity of red tape [among brass hats]; there is overorganization and there is lack of clear, directive vision [with the War Department...
...will be a while before he has to. Not until he is enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral some time after Easter-lack of central heating prevents holding the ceremony sooner-will Geoffrey Fisher take over the job he did not want. By his own admission, he lacks Temple's vision and imagination. He will probably never lead a great spiritual revival in the Church of England, as Temple might have done; nor is he likely to say or do anything to shock or upset his fellow Anglicans, as Temple often did. What he will...
Their attitudes were unpredictable. But the year had brought forth a vision of the economic breadth of the U.S.-and the world-which was as new as anything which they were encountering. The biggest question about this future economy concerned the contribution still to be made by the men who were fighting to make any plans possible. Until this was known, the prospects opened up by 1944 would not be plumbed. The great hope was that a young man's war would usher in a young man's peace...
...made the deepest emotional dent in the country was one who died before his time: Wendell Willkie. Seldom in this century had any man been so sincerely and widely mourned. From defeat in 1940 to repudiation by his own party in 1944, Willkie had grown great in vision, forthrightness and courage, and the millions who followed his progress gained a new conception of human freedom...
...vast reconstruction which lies ahead-a vision ardently held by every Chinese from the Generalissimo down-the Central Government plans to leave to private enterprise all fields save posts & telegraphs, mints, arsenals, most railways and hydroelectric power. It definitely eschews far-reaching state socialism, promises equal consideration for foreign and domestic private enterprise. Commented the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (New York edition...