Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same basic code, they can reach dramatically individual and divergent conclusions. The so-called primitive mind, for one example, abhors change. It builds societies designed to repeal history: "What primitive man seeks above all is not truth but coherence; not the scientific distinction between true and false but a vision of the world that will satisfy his soul...
Swords in Scabbards. That may be an elusive vision. The problem for U.S. policymakers is that the Arabs see no room for Israeli fig trees anywhere in the Middle East; they remain committed to destroying the little country. For their part, the Israelis have no intention of following the advice of Micah and another favorite Johnsonian prophet-Isaiah-and beating their swords into plowshares. "Return your swords to your scabbards," said Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week, "but keep them ever ready, for the time has not yet come when you can beat them into plowshares...
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE (Vt.) Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, D.LET. Her energetic crusade for enhancing the beauty of America encourages a vision beyond the blight of billboards and bulldozers to a flourishing landscape and to the wonder of the Green Mountains, the Grand Canyon, the Poconos and the Pedernales...
...About "Le Brushoff" [May 26]: Indeed, Napoleon will be forever remembered as le petit grand for his vision and as the great champion of a United Europe. De Gaulle will be remembered as le grand petit for his narrow views on Europe. It is amazing that the new Europe tolerates this narrow-minded...
...project three great pyramidal structures honeycombed with individual oval living units, his professors objected that "Pretty soon the planet will be covered with nothing but balls." The way things are going for Häusermann right now, he is likely to stay inside his concrete shells until his student vision becomes a reality...