Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Party would never have come into power in British politics if there had not been a leader with vision and foresight such as Ramsay MacDonald said Mr. Sidney Wicks, editor of the Manchester Guardian, and prominent educator and politician speaking at the Liberal Club at luncheon yesterday afternoon...
...most significant feature of his political personality, as presented by Mr. Wicks, is that the Prime Minister has a tremendous breadth of vision, which looks toward future internationalism, and yet retains a sense of proportion strong enough to keep his immediate ideals within reasonable limits. In the modern type of statesmen, and in fact in any type past or present, this quality of being able to see beyond the boundaries and prejudices of one particular nation is rare indeed. When combined with a perception of present limitations, its occurrence is more unusual still...
...life went out, I was conscious suddenly of a presence, not a vision, and there sounded in my mind the words of Jesus: 'Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one of them can fall to the ground without the Father's notice? Are ye not of more value than many sparrows...
...wholesale homicide occurs in a dream. The manufacturer's family have camped on the composer's trail with cannibalistic eyes. They have considered him a plump, promising morsel to be gobbled up in matrimony by Fluffy Daughter. In a drug-inspired vision the composer (Roland Young) fancies himself actually shackled to the family. He is forced to devote his talents to frenziedly manufacturing widgets-whatever they are. The natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth...
...marched impatiently across the last years of the 19th Century, while Titanic voices prophesied the glory of a bigger, brighter, better age to come, an Episcopal clergyman, vital, imaginative, brilliant, went forth to serve God in Arkansas. Vision and power were his. He felt the kingdom of Heaven was not impossible of fulfillment in America. He became Bishop. Let men love one another and praise...