Word: visioning
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...cannot be willed away. Defusing them will ultimately require the mix of firm resolve and patient diplomacy practiced by successful American statesmen throughout the Cold War. Reagan's gift was his ability to speak candidly about the realities of the age while still presenting, and working toward, an optimistic vision of the future. He sensed when the right risk might be rewarded. Obama's challenge now is to do the same...
...looking at an ad and being vaguely aware of it are two different things. Plenty passes through our peripheral vision, but because of the way the eye works, we only thoroughly see things that we stop at and observe deliberately. By that measure, people in the study saw 36% of the ads on the pages they visited - not a bad hit rate. The average time a person spent looking at an ad, though, was brief - one-third of a second...
Laboratory at Harvard founder David A. Edwards has been a leader for the burgeoning movement, authoring a book called “Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation” that touts the growing body of research as a way to reverse a worrisome trend toward tunnel vision in academic disciplines...
States that apply for grant money must demonstrate a will, capacity, and plan to create legal, regulatory, and technological conditions that foster reform in line with the president’s vision for public education...
...artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality,” John F. Kennedy ’40 said of Robert Frost in a speech following the poet’s death, “becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state.” Horacio Castellanos Moya emerges as another writer who recognizes the discrepancies between his ideal and the reality and uses his talents to critically assess the forces responsible for the latter. In “The She-Devil in the Mirror...