Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not that analysis is correct or fair, commercials obviously represent the American materialist vision of the good life all the shiny possessions and luxuries that people want, or are supposed to want...
Americans look at their past through a special window and with special vision. Unlike the Greeks viewing the Parthenon, the Italians the Forum, the French the Louvre, Americans do not look for monuments of former greatness and glory. Their quest is rather that of a people who feel they have achieved much and expect to achieve more - but who also want to understand the roots of that achievement...
Caught between the yogis and the commissars of the New Left, he falls back on a semimystical vision of the world as town meeting, proposing an ideal society that stresses religion rather than politics. With his transcendental interpretation of history, his uncompromising rectitude, and his wobbly ambivalence in the face of actuality, Lynd seems like a 19th century Brook Farm Utopian who has wandered nobly but by mistake into the 20th century...
Charles de Gaulle's vision, in which the Continent is also divorced from the U.S., calls for a Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals. Zhukov's view does not stop at the Urals: "Russians are Europeans, no matter what side of the Urals they live on." Yet Russia obviously considers De Gaulle an ally in its European policy, so much so that even his recent fulminations against Communism in France do not bother Zhukov in the slightest. "That's election talk," he says. Nor does he think much of the student radicals who have lately upset...
...DEMOCRATIC LEFT, by Michael Harrington. The political evangelist who roused the conscience of the U.S. on behalf of the poor (The Other America) here turns to proposals for reshaping American political and economic life through the creation of a new party imbued with social concern. Some of his vision is overly visionary, but there can be no doubting the author's passionate concern...