Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uppermost in Harold Macmillan's mind. What price must Britain pay to enter Europe? The step now seemed inevitable, but at fearsome risk to Britain's Commonwealth ties. Charles de Gaulle fears the influence of the U.S.-British alliance in Europe; does he so savor the vision of France as No. 1 nation on the Continent that he would actively try to keep Britain out forever...
...first annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Washington last fortnight, President Dana McLean Greeley told 1,000 delegates that he thought their church (membership: 200,000) might double in size within the next decade. "We have thought of ourselves as a tiny denomination; but with adequate vision and will, in a quarter of a century we could become a denomination of at least 1,000,000 members," said Greeley...
...other words, man alone gives meaning to the life around him. This is not simple idealism. An enigma remains. And that is the necessary riddle of each man's mind, the confusion of his words, the haze of his vision. In a late period, when Stevens abandoned the luxurious language of his early work for the "grandly plain" style he sought to teach by, Stevens wrote...
...language turned more sober and more exact, his vision faded; there is no poem in the final five volumes of his work that states the workings of the metaphysical-symbolic eye so well as "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," a poem from his first collection...
...17th century La Rochefoucauld's maxims were full of bee stings and rare perfumes. Lec's often have the smell of burnt flesh and of sickly sweet gas, the feel of barbed wire, and a vision of the world from a hollow...