Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last canto, Dante is granted the Beatific Vision, and as he looks upon the face of God he rises to what Eliot called "the highest point poetry has ever reached or ever can reach...
...collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
Courage Is Needed. Vastly different in their traits and talents, America's newly wealthy entrepreneurs nonetheless share some telling similarities. Ambitious, energetic and supremely confident, they have had vision enough to get an idea, courage enough to pursue it. They were often discouraged by the experts, and they failed frequently-only to rebound. So eager were they to test their ideas that many of them dropped out of college, though dropping out is by no means a requisite for making a million. They made tremendous sacrifices, taking meager salaries at first and pouring the profits back into their business...
...talked over a breakfast table about the business of being President, and exchanged compliments. "In my historical memory, no President has made such an impression in the early part of his Administration as you have," said Truman. "We are deeply in debt to Mr. Truman for his vision," said Johnson. "And this is not a mutual admiration society," said Truman. "It's a statement of fact...
Still, he makes a brave try, recording scores of small but interesting scenes. There is President Johnson, the day after he took office, emotionally telling Dwight Eisenhower "that it was up to him to carry out the Kennedy dream, the Kennedy vision"-and being advised to buckle down to work right away on the budget and the economy. (He did.) There is Barry Goldwater, musing about foreign policy: "Let's lob one into the men's room of the Kremlin." There is Lyndon, dressing for the Atlantic City convention with the door of his White House bedroom open...