Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking he deemed valuable in as much as it facilitates effective action action bearing desirable consequence in the realm of pure, raw, personal experience. Although he blamed hear lecture commitments for his failure to write a "syllogistic" metaphysic his own temperament most probability was the real culprit. The beatific vision of William James is not one of regular polygons and concatenate syllogisms, but a paradise of pine woods aromas, Italian Renaissance art, and home-cooked food...
...numbered; in coming years, the city man will begin to get something approximating an equal voice in the management of his own affairs. In the South, where fear of Federal intervention on behalf of the Negro has robbed legislators of all sense of proportion, the reaction against this vision of democracy has been particularly violent...
...apocalyptic vision of a thermonuclear war that would annihilate mankind has, in fact, slowly receded, giving way to the idea, voiced by Winston Churchill back in 1950, that the frightfulness of nuclear weapons makes total war improbable. Peace "through mutual terror." Churchill called it. A corollary of this concept is that in a nuclear stalemate the threat of nuclear retaliation ceases to be an effective deterrent to small-scale aggression with conventional weapons. In other words, nuclear stalemate can deter big wars but not little wars. To lessen the U.S.'s reliance on what the late John Foster Dulles...
...urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter added fresh scenes to the eternal duelogue of parent and child. At 21, she turned again to the short and simple annals of the poor, which, in her vision, are long and squalid...
...Discontent is not all bad," wrote Hesburgh. It affects any feeling man "and will not be cured this side of the beatific vision." But Notre Dame does not "consider faculty and students to be equal partners in the educative process." So "if anyone seriously believes that he cannot become well educated here without a car or girls in his room, or if he really thinks his personal freedom is impossibly restricted by curfew or state laws on drinking or the presence of priests in the residence halls, then I think the only honest reaction is to get free of Notre...