Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful dropouts like a bright light in a dank dungeon. Any hippie, yippie, card burner or other destructive zealot who reads your article and doesn't drop in to 1) a bathtub, 2) a barber shop and 3) an employment office, must be completely devoid of imagination and vision...
...With luck and hard work," says Arthur Clarke, the dean of science-fiction writers, "we have a chance to see the final end of the Dark Ages." It seems an irresistible vision, a Faustian grand finale for rational humanist...
...more and more thoughtful people are objecting to the triumphal last act, the closer it seems to be. The reason for this lack of excitement at the by-now ritually invoked vision of material Utopia is that it has been held out too often. Today, at least in wintry moments of perception, it comes on as overblown and unconvincing as a TV commercial...
...finds that she is not the perfect mate for a dog racing addict. "Tattoo" is about two brothers who get tattooed because they decide it will make them men. "I Can See for Miles" deals with a person who can see his girl being unfaithful because he has telescopic vision like superman. The song deals with the same emotional situation as "I Heard it Through the Grapevine." "Disguises" expresses the same sentiment as Bob Dylan's "I Don't Believe You." The situation that the Who use are no less revealing about people than songs attempting to represent real life...
...modest projects of Japan's Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subject is history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama (The Lower Depths) or thriller (High and Low), Kurosawa invests each film with the breadth of an epic vision. Taken together, his films are like a single, vivid morality play, often heroic and sometimes cynical, celebrating the triumph of man over circumstance...