Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China. Always far more than a fighting machine, the P.L.A engages in everything from road and dam construction to social services to making propaganda movies. A year before the Revolution got under way, Lin abolished ranks in the P.L.A., a hint of how far back toward some vision of beneficent anarchy Mao intended to turn the Chinese clock...
Even as they slog through the lave pits of childhood and adolescence, most youths are forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt...
...there is one quality common to all these stories from the dual Anglo-American tradition as well as European sources, it is the concern for fiction as a revelation of the truth. The private vision, because it seeks no corroborating evidence, must carry conviction of itself. It is this seriousness-even in the comic vein of a Saul Bellow-which makes Jean-Paul Sartre's satirical portrait of a protoFascist, Childhood of a Leader, seem as frivolous in this company as a mere cartoon. The same quality makes the similarity-a glum but grimly maintained Freudo-Marxist determinism-between...
...students on the strike committee (which is still operative) have a vision, and Mrs. Lieberman's predictions of a revolutionary stirring are typical. At the final strike rally, Savio told the strikers that "we're going to give this administration trouble until students really run this university...
Many men dream of being George Plimpton: handsome, rich, aristocratic, reasonably young (39), friend of Jackie Kennedy and Marianne Moore, sportsman, writer, world traveler, editor of Paris Review. Plimpton, on the other hand, dreams of being many men. He sees himself as a superathlete-or as several superathletes. His vision is not as remote as other Mittyesque mirages, for Plimpton has found a way of acting out his fantasies...