Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this sort of arrangement that gives the most ordinary-looking reporter the Homeric breadth of vision that enables him with equal ease to write today of the copper economy of Chile and tomorrow about the prospects for the Republican Party in Mississippi...
...West is baffled by this people. Most Arabs from Aden to Algeria are poor, sick, uneducated, and desperately in need of survival training for the 20th century. The vision of a once great civilization moving into the modern world should be a cause to fire the Arab mind and spirit, a unifying challenge to build national pride and progress. Yet for two decades, Arab leaders have been more interested in mounting suicidal wars against Israel. If the Arabs truly weighed their own self-interest after their latest, disastrous defeat, they would face facts-or so a Westerner would reason-accept...
...audience seemed undecided whether Moore's stark emblems smacked of outer space or, as one observer said, of "instant Stonehenge," or what. Moore saw it all as "a whole new vision of my work." Perhaps more important, it provided a whole new vision of Mozart's masterpiece, paring away all but the essentials of the drama, freeing the music to soar and reverberate in ominous vistas of eternity...
...properly understood, a historical event. Largely because the idea of a return from death is a concept incomprehensible to modern man, Bultmann considers the Resurrection a trans-historical myth. Pannenberg concedes that there is no way of knowing the exact mode of the Resurrection-was it simply a special vision given to Jesus' disciples, or a reconstitution of his body?-but he insists that there is no justification for dismissing it as legend. The fact of the Resurrection, he declares, was one of the primitive elements of Christian teaching, and its conceptual possibility is foreshadowed in apocalyptic passages...
There is little real poetic content in her work, but enough to inspire Berry-man's vision of sexuality imprisoned by a tyranny of conscience. Enough, too, to make Mistress Bradstreet a valid foot note to the age of Milton and Marvell, the honorable inaugurator of American poetry, and one of the first female voices in literature to speak intimately and directly in its own behalf...