Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader must aim high, show that he has vision, act on a grand scale. -Charles de Gaulle...
Conveniently Deaf. TV pushes this vision to an overwhelming degree. Empires have been built on commerce, trade has opened up frontiers, but nothing like the TV sales pitch has ever existed before. Despite the genuine entertainment that so many of the good commercials afford, television still succeeds in crushing its viewers with ads that are too annoying, too loud, too often and just too much. Roughly 20% of TV air time is given over to commercials (see chart, next page). This year 2,000 advertisers will pour $3.1 billion into television advertising twice the budget of the poverty program reaching...
...great traditions to the world: the hierarchic and the libertarian. "We taught kings how to be kings," exults Nourissier, "then taught the people how to rid themselves of kings." In the process, "France perfected a certain kind of man-quick, insolent, fired by his conquests and the vision of his future." The territorial conquests may be gone, Nourissier admits, but "the great French adventure" can still continue if the vision-and indeed the insolence-remains. That is a tall order for the descendants of Figaro, comparable to telling a middle-aged man that he must remain young...
...that American industrial growth in Europe is a matter of money not method, Servan-Schreiber scoffs. He points out that 90% of the capital supporting American expansion in Europe is itself European. "American superiority," he insists, "is not basically a question of dollars but of industrial structure, far-sighted vision and unified command." He vividly emphasizes this in a chapter comparing the European supersonic transport, Sud-Aviation's Concorde, with the Boeing SST. He finds the Boeing model far superior. Yet the search that created the Boeing was based on two scientific advances that were made in Europe: the swing...
...Mayer's combined respect for and ability to manipulate the audience does not entirely result in our being able to sit back and laugh for 2 1/2 hours, and his vision of the all-too-real dream incorporates terror, coruption of the flesh, and the inadequacy of the bonds between the combinations of lovers. Here the Summer Players' production is less accessible, and without dwelling on interpretation best left to each of you, I would quietly and seriously suggest that Mayer has invested something of his heart and soul in the show. Also that the terror inherent in the confrontation...