Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found in all of them the same underlying principles of social justice, especially in connection with protecting women and children in industry, providing mothers' pensions, resisting mob rule against the Negro. " The divisions wrought by theology and excused by theology are being healed in the sunlight of social vision. Here is where Anglican agrees with Catholic, Catholic with Quaker, Quaker with Baptist, and Baptist with...
...Rogers", President Eliot continued, "had a distinct prophetic vision of the part which the new school of applied science was to play in American democracy. Mrs. Rogers, through her large field of acquaintances in Boston, was able to bring just the right people together to support the project...
...vision of H. G. Wells?it spells disaster...
...iconoclast, an image-breaker". "Puritanism is an urgent exploring and creative spirit." It seems that Professor Sherman struck a snag somewhere. Would not his definition cover the men whose work he finds harmful to the formation of a real American literature? Cannot these writers insist that their "vision of the good life" is as adequate as that advance by Emerson and Whitman...
From within his "Paradiso" Dante once made Beatrice prophesy the advent of a ruler "who, below, shall be august; and who shall come to direct Italy upon the right path". The poet had formed the vision of an imperial figure who should restore the Holy Roman Empire, and bring all the factions of a disunited Italy under his sole command. This man was to come forth soon, and he had even been designated as Henry VII--then nominally the emperor. But Henry died an ignoble death, having accomplished less than nothing, and Dante was forced to postpone the date...