Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own blind professional conservatism." Many doctoral dissertations are "patient parsing of the obvious and the irrelevant," yielding "laboriously trivial discoveries." It all adds up to "a vast educational enterprise built entirely upon a caste of learned men whose learning has no relevance to the young. It is a vision of madness accomplished...
...skin is as grey as the towel in a night-court lavatory, but his ideas are crisp and green. As the cameraman's brother-in-law, he loyally announces: "We're going for all the marbles, kid! You got a ringing in your ears and double vision...
...ladies and retired gentlemen, but it is well to remember that it is also a primal human activity. In a parable of human anguish raised to an existential level, Nigel Dennis pursues Voltaire's suggestion that man should look to his own garden, and shows in a nightmare vision what it would be like to be the last gardener-one man alone, devoted to growing things in a mechanized military world...
...with more faith in his own longevity then the Western press had, still felt his vision of a happy, communist future for the Chinese peasant would fail unless Chinese youth received a new injection of revolutionary spirit and unless a few over-tired and over-ambitious people in the Party were weeded out quickly...
Always focusing ahead, Sarnoff conceived the radio phonograph, negotiated the acquisition of the Victor Talking Machine Co., then immersed himself in developing Vladimir Zworykin's miraculous iconoscope for commercial television. The vision became a reality at the 1939 World's Fair, when, in the first public demonstration of TV, Sarnoff himself intoned from the screen...