Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fantasy took flight in their songs, from Yellow Submarine's childlike picture of a carefree existence beneath the waves to the vastly more complex and ominous vision in Strawberry Fields Forever of a retreat from uncertainty into a psychedelic copout...
...Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara: "She'll live in a Yankee mansion, as big as a castle, on a grand estate of stately woodland...
Lockheed was by no means first to see the silver lining in that vision. European airlines began calling for an air bus back in 1963, and the British, French and German governments got an aircraft-manufacturing consortium together to cash in on the demand. Their early lead disappeared as the partners fell to feuding. They also suffered a rude shock when American Airlines Chairman C. R. Smith allowed as how he would have none of a twin-jet design, considered anything less than three engines in a 300-passenger plane foolhardy for safety reasons...
...World War II drew to a close in Europe, men of vengeance and men of vision contemplated the future of Germany. There were those, like Winston Churchill, who saw both the threat of Soviet expansion into war-wasted Western Europe and the need for a revived and economically viable Germany to stand as a buffer before the Commu nist advance. And there were people like Ernest Hemingway, who recommended that all Nazis be castrated...
Despite that gloomy assessment, none of the foreign ministers thinks that the Asunción Conference has doomed the grand vision of a free market stretching from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Indeed, one of the conference's achievements was the approval of a regional subgrouping within LAFTA that will soon open up a free-trade zone embracing 50 million people. The so-called "Andino group" of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Chile will begin planning its tariff cuts next month. As for LAFTA, its diplomats will resume talks in November. If nothing else, they discovered at Asunci...