Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contempt on such a "vegetable" response to imprisonment. Instead, "he-like all the more sensible of his compatriots-possessed an inexhaustible spring of life in himself: his imagination, which had sustained him throughout the darkest years of his country's captivity, kept before him, day and night, the vision of the full, untrammeled, seething life in the free world. For him as for his friends, the yardstick of beauty was freedom." Personal freedom, he says, "is the one unarguable good on earth. The Communists have put forward another: not man, but the collectivity, not the individual, but the herd...
This name-calling of "realistic" and "tenderminded" does not clarify things much. Each of us is convinced that within his own vision of the mechanics of world affairs lies that ideal combination of compassion and realism in the face of decisions of power. The first problem is to discover what the United States is actually doing. Then theoretically you can endorse one of three foreign policy alternatives: using power as the Administration is doing; ceasing to exert pressure on the internal affairs of other nations; or continuing to exert pressure but in a different direction...
...Aron's work is a patient and insistent debunking of utopias: any sociology that smuggles answers into the way it poses questions, and philosophy of history that sees patterns where there are none, ideologies which sacrifice men today to a vision of the future, or statecraft that promises more than it can deliver, all come under Aron's pitiless onslaught. The purpose of such demolition is not to clear the way for a pure and total science of society. Aron sees society as far too complex and changing to allow for any general theory valid for all times and places...
...should Christianity really be all that concerned with adding names to church rosters? Many Protestant thinkers believe that the church has a hard enough task "converting" the baptized heathens already on its rosters-the millions of comfortable Christians who joined the church without undergoing any radical change in their vision or way of life. "I even think that no growth could be a healthy sign," says Dr. Jud. The new approach to evangelism-visible in such "unstructured ministries" as coffeehouses, industrial missions, and missions to drag strips, ski resorts, and "night people"-is primarily interested not in selling Christianity...
...challenge the administration to look beyond these considerable but wholly solvable problems to a vision of the world's first undergraduate, urban, aerial, outdoor picnic ground. This is the kind of proposal that administrations generally pass off as "unrealistic" with an understanding, paternal smile. We hope, however, that this plan will not be ignored simply because it is unusual...