Word: visioning
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...experimenting with the different arrangements of one color,” Debussy wrote in 1894 concerning the composition of his three “nocturnes,” “which, in painting, for example, would be a study in grey.” Debussy’s vision of grey is not flat or dull; instead, it is a tone that remains mysterious, though it partially reveals itself in beautiful and distinct flashes. In the same manner, this delicate nuance of a singular emotional mode underlies Kazuo Ishiguro’s first collection of stories, itself entitled...
...It’s just that he’s got a chicken or something on the end of his arm.” This seems to be Ishiguro’s conceptualization of the human protective mechanism: the bizarrely funny and nonsensical vision of two people with mummified heads standing on a stage, subjected to the fierce currents of the outside world while barely reacting to them...
...Alexa is one of the most driven people I know,” said Chelsea L. Ono Horn ’10, one of two Harvard seniors who interned at the company this past summer. “She knows how to motivate people, and she has a clear vision of what she wants...
...least a first step in finding some common ground for the party. "We really have to regain the image of being an inclusive party and tolerant of a lot of debate," Cantor says. "So I will continue to reach out and to work to develop policies that reflect a vision that can appeal to people on the right, in the middle and hopefully like-minded Democrats on the left. That's how you go about forming a governing coalition again...
...opened as scheduled on Oct. 26 but was adjourned 20 minutes later when Karadzic refused to appear. With the defendant again absent the next day, the proceedings started without him. In his opening statement, Tieger said Karadzic had "harnessed the forces of nationalism, hatred and fear to pursue his vision of an ethnically segregated Bosnia." He also quoted the former Bosnian Serb leader as saying before the war that he would turn the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into a "black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die." (See pictures of Belgrade riots after Kosovo declared independence...