Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost as old as government itself. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Utopia-the idea of a community totally without constraint. Zeno, founder of the ancient Greek school of Stoic thought and anarchism's earliest forerunner, opposed Plato's ideal of state communism in favor of his own vision of a free community without government. Medieval Christianity was full of individualist sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with God's. One, the Nicolites, believing themselves blessed with the innocence of Paradise, refused to wear clothes; many lived in small, ungoverned communes, preaching love...
...always been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision to build a strong pressure group out of the poor of the country, strong enough to compete with the interests that run the nation now. His idea was to bring that rag-tag pressure group to Washington, to somehow "pressure" Congress into recognizing poverty as a problem and more important, into recognizing poor people as a political force...
Police across the country have gratefully adopted Mace, a chemical stun gas in a pressurized can, as a means of coping with rioters and unruly suspects. Used as recommended (from at least 3 ft. away, in 1-sec. bursts), it causes temporary loss of vision and inability to move-effects far less drastic than those of a club or a .38-cal. bullet...
...Down. Few ever did. A man of both vision and vigor who honed his boyhood interest in aviation as a Navy pilot during World War I, New Jersey-born Trippe ruled his airline with a firm hand. After establishing Pan Am as the first carrier to offer regular international service, he engaged in what amounted to a one-man diplomatic mission in order to negotiate landing rights in South America. In the 1930s, with his line's South American routes already well established, he became the first to introduce scheduled airline service across both the Pacific and the Atlantic...
Portnoy wears his Oedipus complex as if it were a festering good-conduct medal that had been stapled to his sternum. But his is a tragedy in which Oedipus is played by Groucho Marx. Mother Portnoy is a vibrant orange-haired vision who has never given up trying to smother her son in the warm pudding of her ample bosom. She surpasses the grotesque stereotype simply because Roth plays her absolutely straight, making her totally and comically unconscious of the unconscious...