Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citing half a dozen South African novels written in the last 75 years Miss Gordimer attempted to show how the vision of their writers has been limited by "the oppressive nature of the color conflict." Most of them, she said, write within the context of an "immoral morality" based on the idea that the color bar is absolute and the mingling of races...
Melodrama's appeal to fear, however, is essentially "childish," Bentley concluded. "The melodramatic vision is good up to a point," he said, "and that point is childhood." Nor can melodrama be separated entirely from tragedy. "There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every...
...College provides only one sort of answer to those who have no vision of their future. It does not provide alternatives to academic success except in extracurricular terms, and because there is even less contact between undergraduates and the rest of the community than, say, twenty years ago, for many of them, other possibilities never open. It seems quite plausible that some of the professionalism in extracurricular activities can be traced to the College's failure to open professions other than scholarship, at the same time that it is making professional scholarship ever more the model for undergraduate learning...
Judge Ganey's "shocking indictment of American free enterprise" caps three decades of being brainwashed with distrust of the profit incentive in our economy. With this indictment in hand, and with our politically nurtured tunnel vision, we can now clearly see business profit standing alone-the sole source of the burden we bear as the price of freedom. A wide-angled view would include the collusive abuse of power and trust in every aspect of our existence where the hand of man can control, and the indictment would perforce become one of the whole idea that man should...
Electronics of the Soul. The vision evokes terror as well as beauty, plainly alluding to the blinding dissolution of an atomic war. Light is knowledge : can it be sin also? Can the physicists with their nucleonics and the cyberneticists with their computers wash themselves of culpability for the blinding light they have created? Is all new knowledge good? And if it is not, should scientists be controlled - by the state, for the state's ends? So Schirmbeck's characters inquire, talking essays to each other the way Aldous Huxley's people used to, and enthusiastically fogging...