Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left tendencies have helped establish the present ideological direction. The challenger was Saburo Eda, 59, a moderate who seeks to direct the party into more vote-catching paths by de-emphasizing such Marxian credos as class war and nationalization. Instead, Eda promised to head the party toward his "Eda vision," an eclectic selection of party goals that would have Japan under the Socialists strive to emulate the Soviet Union's social security system, Britain's parliamentary democracy, and the U.S.'s standard of living...
...showdown, the vote split along predictable factional lines: 313 for Hard-liner Sasaki v. 274 for Eda and his vision. It was a guarantee that if Premier Sato does call a general election next month, the major opposition will not only still be out of touch with modern Japan, but will also be even more badly divided than his own scandal-tainted Liberal Democrats...
...Holton's vision of his own "private science" has often led him far away from the five-man research unit on the structure of liquids which he heads in the Physics Department. It has led him into liberal politics; he stumped last summer for Thomas Boylston Adams, Massachusetts peace candidate for the U.S. Senate. For seven years, Holton edited Daedalus, the publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which grew under his direction into a widely praised and read journal. He is vice-chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education and guided the $4.5 million federal program...
...slowly built St. Mary's near the ruins of the old monastery. The intense work, combined with worries about his health-he eventually lost his left eye because of cancer-put him under great stress. One night in October 1960, according to his Dialogues, he had a vision of lightning flashes. Feelings of fear and joy swept over him; tearfully he cried out, "My God, why don't you speak to me?" Suspecting that he was going insane, he turned for help to Mexican Psychoanalyst Gustao Quevedo...
Despite all the proud displays, a meaningful volume of intra-Oriental trade still remains a vision of the future. But the fair and the new Asian Development Bank could, as Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato put it at the ADB inaugural, mark the "opening of a new era in the history of Asia...